At the Jaipur Literature Festival, the co-founder of MTV and the author of Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu spoke ...

A triumph in indoor soccer has turned Alireza Ahmadi, 17, and other players from the Hazara minority, long marginalized in Afghanistan, into national heroes.

There is no time like the present as the Refugee Orchestra Project comes to Mechanics Hall on March 1 for a concert on its 10th anniversary presented by Music Worcester. Refugees around the world are ...

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

A good heart these days is hard to find, and never more so than in the middle of a war zone. Written and directed by ...

Some songs just make you feel instantly still, instantly calm. They make you realize that maybe you've been holding your breath for a while and you can finally let go. That was the immediate reaction ...

BRAGA, Portugal — Collected from a family gravesite shortly before she left Kabul, the rocks and dirt in a tiny plastic container are among 15-year-old Farida Ahmadi’s most cherished possessions, a ...

To many, performing music can be a liberating, life-altering experience. For a group of young women in Afghanistan, learning to play classical music was just that. The students of the Afghanistan ...

DOHA, Qatar — On the outskirts of Qatar's capital, there's a gated residential compound that was built to house dignitaries attending the 2022 FIFA World Cup. But since August, Park View Villas has ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...

When the Taliban was driven from Kabul, music was once again allowed. The first song played on Radio Afghanistan was Kabul Jaan, by Farhad Darya, an Afghan singer in exile since 1990. Now living in ...