The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021. They immediately disbanded the Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music (ANIM). ANIM has since moved to Portugal and is planning an ...

• Afghanistan’s leading female artist was among the thousands of evacuees after Taliban took control of Kabul • Aryana Sayeed says she’s doing her part to keep her country’s music alive • Australian ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Afghanistan's first and only music academy taught Afghan and Western music. It gained international fame. After the Taliban took over, students and faculty of the Afghanistan National Institute of ...

A women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday. Sadai Banowan, which means women's voice ...