A collection of music from Afghanistan climbs to No. 12 on iTunes' World Music bestseller charts. Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer are two MBA students who recorded traditional music during a trip ...

International donors, including the U.S., have helped refurbish a conservatory in Kabul, but some of the students say they still face ... Music In Afghanistan A Sensitive Subject Afghanistan sits at a ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...

For his fellow exiles, Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, an 88-year-old star from a golden era, evokes the Afghanistan they left behind, and one that could have been. Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas in the Netherlands in ...

In Afghanistan, music is being silenced—not by the gentle passing of time, but by deliberate destruction. Photos recently appeared in the media showing piles of musical instruments reduced to ashes: ...

Borrowing part of a quote from David Bowie, the Afghan Whigs have announced the name of their new album, and a slew of fall ...

A popular Afghan singer has been missing for more than a month in Kabul, where she shot to fame with her performance on a popular television talent show nearly a decade ago. Zulala Hashimi’s husband ...

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 ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle’s music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. “Where ...

Nan mai dowr i a wolei / Gul Zaman, sang -- Mohammed dai nabiyano / Ustad Doray, sang -- Bimár dil, kharāb dil -- Bogzar dar pish-e to / Hamida Rokhsahana, sang -- Dur az to az shab tā sahar / Zhila, ...