The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...

Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show ...

Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

Sarwat Najib empowers through fashion, while bringing Afghan culture to central Wisconsin. Originally from Kabul, fashion designer Sarwat Najib brings Afghan artistry to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Her ...

“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...

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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 ...

Four 'Peaky Blinders' fans in Afghanistan were detained by the Taliban for adopting a style they said was “in conflict with Afghan values.” According to officials, the men were summoned by the Taliban ...

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 ...

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Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power It’s been almost three years since ...