New York
From Kabul to the Carnegie Hall: How an orchestra defied the Taliban to carry on playing
An orchestra from Afghanistan which defied the Taliban recently played at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Established in 2010 under a fragile U.S.-backed Afghan government in Kabul, ANIM was Afghanistan’s first and only school of its kind.
Unlike schools during the first Taliban regime, where students were strictly segregated, ANIM allowed boys and girls... [5443 chars]