Despite the Taliban’s attempts to erase the nation’s cultural identity, Afghan artists are hopeful that art can outlive even ...

Photographer Rodrigo Abd, based in Lima, spent months on assignment in Afghanistan in the years after the dispersal ... Abd returned this year with an idea: to employ the nearly disappeared Afghan art ...

But that heritage is threatened in Afghanistan under the Taliban authorities' near-total ban on music, considered corrupting ...

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 ...