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 ...

For months after Afghan artist Sughra Hussainy settled in the U.S. in October 2016, she could not bring herself to make art. It was art, Hussainy thought, that drew threats from the Taliban, who did ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With traditional Afghan music tinkling in the background, attendees at St. Anthony Hall viewed vibrant portraits of Afghan women Friday evening. Dozens of students and Yale affiliates gathered to ...