The late celebrated painter Kamal ud-Din Behzad was known for his miniature art. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
UNESCO’s recognition of Kamal ud-Din Behzad’s miniature art offers rare encouragement to artists struggling to keep Herat’s cultural legacy alive.
Faces of all mannequins and statues have been removed ...
HERAT, Afghanistan, Aug 23 (UNHCR) - Afghan refugees in Iran are able to return home again, after some 13,000 were stranded last week because of fighting around Herat in western Afghanistan. They have ...
More than one million refugees have returned from Iran to Afghanistan since the beginning of UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme in April 2002 - up to 3,000 people a day in recent weeks. Herat is ...
Hundreds of years after the celebrated painter Kamal ud-Din Behzad roamed the streets of Herat, artists in the Afghan city ...
UN's cultural agency inscribed Behzad's style of miniature art on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December ...