Rap isn't exactly the kind of music that should find a following in Afghanistan, a place that aggressively shuns Western influence. But rapper D.J. Besho, known to Afghans as Bejan, has broken through ...

A collection of music from Afghanistan climbs to No. 12 on iTunes' World Music bestseller charts. Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer are two MBA students who recorded traditional music during a trip ...

Afghan musician Marzia Anwari from the Zohra orchestra rehearses ahead of a concert in Doha. Last week marked the first time in three months that members of the ...

Along with the growing humanitarian crisis, Afghanistan's rich musical culture is under threat - Copyright Matangi Tonga/AFP Mary Lyn FONUA Along with the growing ...

An Afghan musician holds a tabla during a portrait in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, September 16, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the ...

Trumpeter fled Afghanistan after the Taliban, who prohibit music, regained power. He's seeking asylum in the U.S. along with other refugees ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writes from ...

Yo-Yo Ma joined Afghan refugees in Libson, Portugal on Tuesday for a performance of Mozart’s "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" ("A Little Night Music"). "The best defense against anything is culture," Ma said ...

An Afghan folk singer has been executed by the Taliban just days after the Islamic fundamentalist group declared that “music is forbidden in Islam,” according to his family. Fawad Andarabi’s family ...

Kabul, Afghanistan — A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is starting to go quiet. The last time that the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright ...