BRAGA, Portugal — Collected from a family gravesite shortly before she left Kabul, the rocks and dirt in a tiny plastic container are among 15-year-old Farida Ahmadi’s most cherished possessions, a ...
Founder of the Afghan Youth Orchestra Dr. Ahmad Sarmast and members of the ensemble Zohra Ahmadi and Ali Sina Hotak tell Bianna Golodryga about preserving Afghanistan’s cultural legacy while it’s ...
The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only ...
NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra have defiantly played on, and on Wednesday they took to one of the world’s most ...
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