Wood shavings covered the floor of Sakhi's modest workshop in Herat, where another rubab, Afghanistan's national musical instrument, came to life under his skilled craftsmanship. For decades, Sakhi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man holds an Afghan rubab in his workshop in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) The capital's morning rush ...

A Pakistani musician found himself with an unexpected audience from nature while performing in the mountains, after a flock of sheep slowly gathered around him as he played Kal ho naa ho on his rubab ...

When Farhan Bogra was teaching himself how to play the rubab, an ancient instrument played by ethnic Pashtuns, 15 years ago in Peshawar, little did he know that his native Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ...

Herat (Afghanistan) (AFP) – 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 ...

An Afghan musician plays the rubab in Kabul, an instrument Unesco recognised in December as intangible cultural heritage in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Photo: AFP Wood shavings ...