UNESCO-listed musical instrument stifled in Afghanistan

UNESCO-listed musical instrument stifled in Afghanistan

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 crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown strangles music in … Read more