Born in Kabul (Afghanistan), Daud Khan learned how to play the rubab (an Afghan string instrument) with master Ustad Muhammad Umar. After becoming a skillful…
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Artist Profiles: Aziz Herawi
Aziz Herawi is an expatriate Afghani currently living in California. He comes from a wealthy religious family in Herat. His father did not approve of…
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Ustad Mohammad Omar, one of Afghanistan’s finest rabab players, became the first Afghan musician to teach in the United States of America when he arrived…
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Kabul Workshop – Trigana (Tinder Records, 2002) Imperialism in all its guises and current world politicking have created a new diaspora with many of the…
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