With Afghanistan’s “war rugs” a traditional art form was updated in response to the country’s brutal invasions by other nations. Tim Bonyhady, Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A History of ...

When the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education was implemented, Kubra Nizami taught girls at home how to read, write and work on handicrafts including knitting and sewing. A new Afghan arts exhibit ...

The SouthCoast Afghan Welcome Network and the New Bedford Free Public Library announced the opening of a unique exhibit, Dil ba Dil Rah Dhara (From One Heart to Another): The Afghan Women’s Art ...

Foreword -- Preface -- Editors' note -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Stepping inside: culture through the windows of art and literature / Arley Loewen -- Guided tour of ...

A major art exhibition has opened in the Afghan capital Kabul. Given its location in a war-torn country known better for anarchy than aesthetics, this is remarkable. But even if one were to ignore ...

Sughra Hussainy, a 27-year-old artist from Afghanistan, never imagined her talent in traditional Persian calligraphy would take her around the world. Sughra Hussainy makes her own watercolors — which ...

Featuring about 1,000 artisans and their wares, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show runs through Sunday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Visitors will have the opportunity to see a potter ...

Click here to read the story in Ukrainian or Dari (Afghan Persian). (MIRROR INDY) — Every day at 12:30 p.m. for the past month, Iryna Bondar, a Ukrainian multimedia artist, asks others in the library ...

This Afghan family has been blowing glass for 200 years. HERAT, Afghanistan -- For 200 years, Ghulam Sakhi's family has been blowing glass in the ancient Afghan city of Herat. He creates azure, indigo ...

A group of Afghan women are defying convention by studying and producing expressive contemporary art. Their work offers an abstract commentary on the restrictions that often govern women’s lives. A ...

In the years after the 2001 U.S. invasion and the ouster of the Taliban regime, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd spent months on assignment in Afghanistan and learned how to use a traditional ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Nabih Bakhsh's family has been part of Afghanistan's musical tradition for generations. His great-grandfather was a musician in the court of the Afghan emperor 150 years ago. His ...