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A s the Taliban entered Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021, Qudrat Wasefi, a resolute 22-year-old trumpeter, flung open the windows of his music school’s empty wood-paneled studio and started to ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Music: Defying tyranny, he built a music school. At
HE BUILT A MUSIC SCHOOL WHERE MUSIC WAS BANNED. THEN HE WENT DEAF AT HIS OWN CONCERT. There is a school in the north of Portugal, in the green country near Braga, where a few hundred young Afghans get ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Music: From Canada to Kabul: Afghan singer seeks to restore music education
KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Music: From Kabul to Carnegie Hall: How an orchestra defied the Taliban to carry on playing
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 ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Music: In Afghanistan, The Taliban Wages War On Music
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 ...