Salisbury’s Quaker Meeting House is playing host to An Afghan Musical Evening, featuring a trio of very talented musicians.
Musicians Homayoun Sakhi and Salar Nader, masters of the Afghan rubab and tabla, respectively, sat cross-legged on a carpeted platform under the stage lights. The rubab is a twenty-one-stringed ...
Kathryn Tickell shares the results of our inaugural Global Encounters session, between Afghan-American rabab player Qais Essar and Korean bamboo flute specialist Dasom Baek. Show more Kathryn ...
The Afghan Women Solidarity Concert will have two ... Tabis player Shahbaz Hussain and rubab player Saphwat Simab. A fringe programme from March 9-11 will include events with schools, youth ...
His anecdote of playing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” on a rusty Russian guitar and connecting with and being accompanied by an Afghan Rubab (a type of lute) player in the playing of this piece ...
“Now, we’re living as if we’re under house arrest — we don’t leave our home anymore for fear of being detained,” said Shirzad, an Afghan former aid worker for a U.S.-funded organizatio ...
The UN has denounced the Taliban’s repeated attacks on women’s rights, with the special representative saying: "We must stand with Afghan women as if our own lives depend on it — because ...
The US state department's office managing Afghan resettlement may close by April, affecting 200,000 individuals, including Afghan-American families, veterans, and children. The closure coincides ...
An Afghan citizen living in Pakistan since 2022, Ahmad feared that authorities would arrest her family for residing in the country illegally. On February 7, just two days after their visas expired ...