A popular Afghan singer has been missing for more than a month in Kabul, where she shot to fame with her performance on a ...

Afghanistan sits at a crossroads between central Asia, Iran and the Indian subcontinent, and the country's music reflects that. Kabul hosted two international music festivals this fall — one ...

Afghan music students, teachers and their families disembark from their flight to Lisbon on Dec. 13. The group of more than 270 evacuees had been staying in Doha, ...

Under Taliban rule, music was banned — listening to it, singing it, and above all learning and playing it. But at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, founded in 2010 in Kabul after the ...

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music was a thriving school in Kabul. But the last time the Taliban was in control of the country, all music related activities were strictly forbidden.

Music in Afghanistan is perhaps best known, particularly in the West, for falling silent under the Taliban. But since 2001, musicians within and outside the country have taken steps to revive ...

Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month ...

Cello players Zinat Hanif, 16, and Mary Khpalwak, 19, were excited to perform on the iconic stage and hope it can help them preserve Afghan music. “Of course we miss Afghanistan, but we are here ...

The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music fled after the Taliban seized power. Now they are trying to remake their school, and their dreams, in Portugal. Making a new home ...

Cello players Zinat Hanif, 16, and Mary Khpalwak, 19, were excited to perform on the iconic stage and hope it can help them preserve Afghan music. “Of course we miss Afghanistan, but we are here ...

Since regaining control of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have reimposed severe limitations on music and public entertainment, similar to those enforced during their previous rule from 1996 to 2001.