To Abdul Wasi Rahraw Omarzad, fleeing Afghanistan and starting a new life in Italy comes with immense responsibility. The artist and curator wants to continue with his work to promote and develop ...

When the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education was implemented, Kubra Nizami taught girls at home how to read, write and work on handicrafts including knitting and sewing. A new Afghan arts exhibit ...

110 artworks from Afghanistan are now on view in Houston. Some are calling it the art show of the year. It's the largest exhibition of art from Afghanistan to be shown in the West in 35 years. These ...

The SouthCoast Afghan Welcome Network and the New Bedford Free Public Library announced the opening of a unique exhibit, Dil ba Dil Rah Dhara (From One Heart to Another): The Afghan Women’s Art ...

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still ...

Foreword -- Preface -- Editors' note -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Stepping inside: culture through the windows of art and literature / Arley Loewen -- Guided tour of ...

A major art exhibition has opened in the Afghan capital Kabul. Given its location in a war-torn country known better for anarchy than aesthetics, this is remarkable. But even if one were to ignore ...

Click here to read the story in Ukrainian or Dari (Afghan Persian). (MIRROR INDY) — Every day at 12:30 p.m. for the past month, Iryna Bondar, a Ukrainian multimedia artist, asks others in the library ...

The details had been worked out over three weeks of negotiations, and even the canapes had been considered (vegetarian only). So when President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan stood off the courtyard at ...

BRATTLEBORO — Of the more than 100 Afghan refugees who landed in Brattleboro, five of them were members of the Art Lords, a 50-person collective of artists founded in 2014 that was responsible for ...

Twelve art trade associations have joined hands in a concerted effort to prevent Afghanistan’s cultural heritage from being trafficked in the Western market following the Taliban’s takeover of the ...

When a nation’s artists are in shackles, its people live in chains. When art is liberated, its people are set free. Since the world abandoned Afghanistan to the ...