Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

Afghanistan is often in the global spotlight, and typically for less than desirable reasons. As someone who has traveled there firsthand, I want to share some super interesting but often overlooked ...

Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by ...

Sarwat Najib empowers through fashion, while bringing Afghan culture to central Wisconsin. Originally from Kabul, fashion designer Sarwat Najib brings Afghan artistry to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Her ...

The first requirement is that the film’s script must initially be submitted to the Taliban, and after the film is completed, ...

After helping the U.S. war mission in Afghanistan, he was able to get himself, his wife and four children out of the country and resettled in Connecticut as part of a special immigrant visa program in ...

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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 ...

“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...

The Taliban have intensified their cultural crackdown in eastern Afghanistan after authorities confirmed the public destruction of dozens of musical instruments in Nangarhar province, reinforcing the ...