A Popular Afghan Singer Challenges the Taliban With Song

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.
The New York Times

An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart

For his fellow exiles, Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, an 88-year-old star from a golden era, evokes the Afghanistan they left behind, and one that could have been. Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas in the Netherlands in ...
Zawya

Afghanistan sings same old song while officials bicker over national anthem

KABUL: Abdel-Bari Jahani does not like the words to Afghanistan's new national anthem, as he fears they could accentuate political and ethnic fault-lines and sow discord. Jahani should know - he wrote ...