After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

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 ...

Zohra Ahmadi rehearses with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Braga, Portugal, on July 29. NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra ...

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, three ...

The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to the delicate cadences of classical piano pours out of a two-storey building in central Kabul. Here, at Afghanistan's sole music ...

Afghanistan's first and only music academy taught Afghan and Western music. It gained international fame. After the Taliban took over, students and faculty of the Afghanistan National Institute of ...

DOHA, Qatar — On the outskirts of Qatar's capital, there's a gated residential compound that was built to house dignitaries attending the 2022 FIFA World Cup. But since August, Park View Villas has ...

Courtesy of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives ...

Three years ago, a group of young musicians from Afghanistan and their teachers fled Kabul to remake their lives as a community in northern... Young Afghan musicians are rebuilding their art together, ...