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DANCE AFGHANISTAN
Asian Gala celebrates heritage, shares culture through food and art
This story features Bucknell University's Students for Asian Awareness group's 10th annual Asian Gala, which this year featured Afghan...


“New Happiness”: Afghan Student Union Shares Nowruz with the Community
Afghan Student Union flag at the University of Utah. Photo by Mckenzie Alder. On Wednesday, March 22, the Afghan Student Union (ASU) at...


Attan
THE STORY Attan is nationally seen and Qarsak is now also now seen as national. Of course, there are these ultra-nationalists who have...


‘I Don’t Want to Go Back to Afghanistan to Get Butchered’
We felt it important to include this article to highlight some of the challenges and complex situations that exist surrounding dance....


Bandari
THE STORY Bandari is famous among the young generation who had the experience of migration in Iran. I personally had that experience....


Reflecting on a changing world with the help of the Attan
As the world experiences a particularly intense period of political, economic, and social change with the rapid movement of people and...


The spirit of dance
The pursuit of a passion for dance is fraught with risk to lives and livelihood for Afghan dancers, writes Madhavi Puranam. Nooriya...


In Pakistan, five girls were killed for having fun. Then the story took an even darker twist.
These photos of similar looking girls in Pakistan were used in efforts to determine whether five girls had been murdered and replaced by...


Photos: Afghanistan's diverse dance moves
This article is a photoessay of different dances practiced by Afghan community members in Afghanistan. All photos cited in this article...


FATA tribesmen enticed by the allure of social media
Though this article principally addresses questions about social media, a comment regarding dance videos as justification for a 2012 ban...
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