Afghan girl members of a Jiu-Jitsu club jump during a practice session on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan.AP/Tamana Sarwary Jiu Jitsu club members look at a wall with posters at their club ahead of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
DENVER — An Afghan artist has achieved a milestone – being the first to feature her work at the Denver Art Museum. Hangama Amiri has become the first Afghan artist to have her work on display at the ...
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 ...
A group of Afghan women are defying convention by studying and producing expressive contemporary art. Their work offers an abstract commentary on the restrictions that often govern women’s lives. A ...
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 ...
Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Negina Azimi painted her first mural as a member of ArtLords of Afghanistan in March 2017. It was Nowruz, 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 ...
Noted Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi has penned an open letter calling on the world to wake up to the impact of the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan. She calls for protection for filmmakers and ...
Shamsia Hassani, a painter who teaches at Kabul University, is also a graffiti artist who ventures into the streets of Afghanistan to create murals. Using the walls of abandoned buildings damaged from ...