I don’t know what the Taliban did with them.” Artists in Afghanistan faced difficulties producing art even outside of the previous Taliban control, but the regime’s return made the risks ...

Abd returned this year with an idea: to employ the nearly disappeared Afghan art form to document how life has changed in peacetime, for better and worse, two years after U.S. troops left and the ...

This long-term study was analysed to guide the direction of the ACF and provides insights into the Afghan art scene. Building upon these findings and taking now into account the dramatic changes of ...

The UN agency UNESCO agrees, recognising in December the art of crafting and playing the rubab as intangible cultural heritage in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Made of dried ...