A new concert organized by NEC student Arson Fahim brings together more than 100 Afghan musicians and composers. He joined GBH's All Things Considered host Arun Rath to discuss how it came together.

The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

This weekend, we’re thinking about the stories that we don’t often hear. An opera company that uplifts the voices of ...

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, ...

Watch a short excerpt from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 3: Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubâb,' released by Smithsonian Folkways in ...

In 2021, pianist and composer Arson Fahim left Afghanistan to study at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge. Less than two weeks later, the Taliban shut down his alma mater, the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Louise Pascale, an American music teacher, pulled a three-decade-old Afghan children's songbook from her bookcase, she realised she was likely holding a ...