Exploring the Buddhas of Bamiyan through first hand experiences [LETTER #1] •March 24, 2010 • DATE: EST. 632 AUTHOR: HSUAN-TSANG; TRAVELING SCHOLARLY MONK ORIGIN: CHANG-AN TYPE: JOURNAL ENTRY After my long journey to Fan-Yen-na (‘Bamiyan’)...
Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR will cover not one year but ten. It will track the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to...
Hazara People: We do respect all ethnic groups in Afghanistan but Hazaras are not Afghan. With Film, Afghan-German Is a Foreigner at Home By MICHAEL SLACKMAN Published: October 17, 2010 Burhan Qurbani directed a prize-winning...
By Abdul Basir Ahang Emerging Hazara Author M. Amin Wahidi is looking for a mass distributing publisher in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia for his novel about the Hazaras which is written in...
by: RENEE MONTAGNE When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left behind a broken country and an infamous act of destruction: reducing to rubble two monumental Buddhas that had stood for 1,500...
Bashir Bakhtiari, with pen name of Baache Azra is a pioneer Afghan journalist filmmaker who is better known for the caricatures and other graphic works he does among the Afghan artists. His journalistic works refer...
Source Javad Khavari was born in 1967 in Bamyan, a province in central Afghanistan. At the age Javad Khavariof four Khavari emigrated to Iran with his family. In 2006 he finished his studies on the...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – SEPTEMBER 26: American violinist William Harvey teaches a Hazara female student during a private violin class at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music on September 26, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s first...
By Hazara poet Kamran Mir Hazar on May 14th, 2010 Kabul 2007; I remember when I was invited accidently to a literary meeting in Afghanistan’s presidential palace. A man working for the president cultural adviser...
The second celebration of the Silk Road will take place in Bamiyan and Band-e-Amir on Tuesday next week. Amir Foladi, the organizer of this event, has outlined that the main purpose of this celebration is...