Homayoun Sakhi is a master performer on Afghan rubab as well as a composer who brings together Eastern and Western musical languages and instruments. Born in Kabul into one of Afghanistan’s leading ...

usicians, artists and rights activists have welcomed the official recognition of rubab as the king instrument of Pashto orchestra by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

Salar Nader. Photo courtesy of the artist. Today’s subject Salar Nader is currently living his theatre life as the Tabla Artist in the national tour of The Kite Runner. The show will conclude it’s ...

NEW YORK - Music is rarely the subject of news from Afghanistan. War, terrorism, corruption, and other such topics have dominated the headlines. And if the Taliban - who outlawed all music save ...

The Safar Concert was held at the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, as the grand finale of the Simurgh Festival. The concert featured JISR, the music collective from Munich, accompanied ...

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has ...

Rubab is a dazzling musical instrument that is played on Nawroz to celebrate the spring season with Iranian swirls and the echoes of lost melodies. Rubab happens to be a lesser-known instrument that ...