usicians, artists and rights activists have welcomed the official recognition of rubab as the king instrument of Pashto orchestra by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

Homayoun Sakhi is a master performer on Afghan rubab as well as a composer who brings together Eastern and Western musical languages and instruments. Born in Kabul into one of Afghanistan’s leading ...

Rubab is a dazzling musical instrument that is played on Nawroz to celebrate the spring season with Iranian swirls and the echoes of lost melodies. Rubab happens to be a lesser-known instrument that ...

KABUL — The capital’s morning rush hour is a discordant backdrop for the workshop of Izzatullah Neamat. But walk down an alley, sidestep a sewage canal, and there he is: ensconced in the rabble among ...

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has ...

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has ...

The view is breathtaking in Saidpur. Among the places in Pakistan that house diverse communities, the village is home to Hindu temples, gurdwaras and Sufi shrines. A five-minute drive away from ...