In September, a few weeks after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Ustad Farida Mahwash performed a song on stage at Yerba Center for the Arts in San Francisco about her home country’s ravaged ...

Svetlana clasps her hands together nervously and motions to a colleague to start the music. “Remember,” she calls to the six Afghan boys on stage. “Maintain your distance!” The traditional Afghan ...

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 ...