As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.

Long before 6 p.m., the seats of the Harold Prince Theatre were already beginning to fill for the nearly sold-out performance by Sarangi Ustad Dr. Suhail Yusuf Khan.

Shahrbanoo Sadat's third feature 'No Good Men' places a classic battle-of-the-sexes workplace romcom against a backdrop of ...

Afghan female artists refuse to be silenced. Despite Taliban bans on music and art, they work in exile to keep their cultural heritage alive. Discover their powerful stories. Elaha Soroor fuses ...

Theatre has a way of getting under your skin. It’s in those unexpected moments—a scene that makes you laugh harder than you expected, a sudden shift in lighting, or a rhythm you’ve never heard ...

The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...

Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month, three ...

Afghanistan’s musicians and the overall music industry have been gravely affected by the Taliban rule since the group took over the country in August 2021. Both traditional and modern music thrived in ...

Soon after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban outlawed music and publicly beat and humiliated musicians. Now the militant group is intensifying its clampdown on Afghans playing and listening to ...

Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Frud Bezhan, regional desk editor for Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.