The BBC Persian’s Nowruz show will delight viewers with Shohreh Aghdashloo’s reading from the classical poet Hafez – an ...

Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition and a thriving pop music scene -- now cowed into silence by the Taliban’s rise.

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 whatever this thing is save a person's life? How can it be so ...