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 August 2021, less than two weeks after pianist and composer Arson Fahim '26 left his native Afghanistan to study composition at New England Conservatory, the Taliban took over his homeland and ...
Musicians play behind closed doors despite a ban on music in Afghanistan and a maker of stringed instrument the rubab refuses to down tools Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop ...