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Dreams of Appearing in Hollywood Movies to Come True for Afghanistan’s Bruce Lee

10th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Abbas Alizada says that he is going to appear in a Hollywood film this year. Alizada, known internationally as the “Afghan Bruce Lee,” is a popular martial artist, actor, impersonator and celebrity in Afghanistan. In a story on Monday, January 9, Toronto Star reflected on the ups and downs in the life of Abbas

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Posted in Entertainment News | Tags: Abbas Alizada |
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‘Kite Runner’ Actor a Two-time Refugee

23rd November, 2022 · admin

 The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from

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Posted in Entertainment News, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Afghanistan continues to watch Turkish TV series amid restrictions

4th October, 2022 · admin

Daily Sabah: People from rural areas in Afghanistan, where electricity and internet problems have worsened, have started to travel to city centers to buy and download Turkish hit series “Kuruluş Osman” (“The Ottoman”) and “Diriliş Ertuğrul” (“Resurrection Ertuğrul”). Gül Ahmed Açıkzey, who owns a telephone shop in Kandahar province in the south of the country,

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Posted in Entertainment News, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations |
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Riveting ‘RETROGRADE’ Makes Warfare In Afghanistan Personal

20th September, 2022 · admin

popMATTERS: Matthew Heineman’s remarkable Retrograde—a National Geographic film showing at some festivals now and hitting theaters and streaming later this year—is one of the most unsettlingly intimate examples of this kind of filmmaking. Ostensibly, it’s a document of the last nine months of the Western-backed Afghanistan government in 2021. The film’s scope ranges from furious

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Posted in Entertainment News, History, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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No Budget for Features, Says Head Afghan Film Organization

26th July, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: Director of Afghan Film, Javid Afghan, said the organization does not have the budget to make feature films, and therefore the priority has gone to making documentaries and short films. “We have done a lot of work using limited means and a small budget, and we have some projects underway, we have screened

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Posted in Art and Culture, Entertainment News | Tags: Movie |
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Nabi Roshan: Afghanistan’s Jon Stewart forced into exile

8th June, 2022 · admin

Al Jazeera: Nabi Roshan was a renowned comedian, dubbed by many as the Jon Stewart of Afghanistan, with his show aired on the country’s largest TV network – watched by millions each week. But last August he was forced to flee the country after the Taliban armed group took over the country 20 years after

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Posted in Entertainment News, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, Nabi Roshan |
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Young Afghan Musicians Who Fled To Portugal Perform With Cellist Yo-Yo Ma

30th March, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 29, 2022 U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music for a performance in Lisbon, Portugal, where the Afghan musicians have sought asylum. Ma joined young Afghan and Portuguese musicians for the performance of a Mozart piece on March 29 on a small stage at

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Posted in Art and Culture, Entertainment News, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Music |
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Taliban Bans Broadcasting Foreign Made TV Series on MOBY Group Media Company and Tolo TV

18th March, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have imposed certain restrictions and censorships on media and freedom of speech since August 2021. In addition to the Taliban’s interferences in media’s scope of work, the factors such as security threats, and lack of funds have forced many media channels to shut down. It is recently reported that more than 50%

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Posted in Censorship, Entertainment News, Media, Taliban | Tags: censorship, Life under Taliban rule, Press Freedom |
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Female Comedian Missing for Nearly 1 Month in Kabul

6th March, 2022 · admin

 Tolo News: “The disappearances and detentions of Taliban critics, journalists & activists continue. Sayed Baqir Mohsini & Nadima are taken by the Taliban & there is no information about their whereabouts. This a group of dictators & repressors who must never be recognized & supported,” said Samira Hamidi, a member of Amnesty International. Click

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Posted in Entertainment News, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Patingara Kakai - Nadima |
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‘We’re all hip-hop family’: the artists fighting to get Afghan breakdancers to safety

21st February, 2022 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Entertainment News, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Breakdancing in Afghanistan, Escape from the Taliban |
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