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DANCE AFGHANISTAN
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Attan
THE STORY The attan is the Afghan national dance. Pashtuns started the attan. I know that it was for the Pashtuns to forget about war....
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![Attan](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/af5be7_e2258db24c964c3ca9a7a9e3d9386edb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_473,h_355,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/af5be7_e2258db24c964c3ca9a7a9e3d9386edb~mv2.webp)
Attan
THE STORY The national dance (Attan) is a symbol of Afghans. Attan at weddings can thus be a symbol of joy, and above all, a symbol is a...
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Bandari
THE STORY Those Afghans who are living in Iran are different from those who raised in Afghanistan. You can dance before your cousin in...
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Sufi Dancing
THE STORY I think it’s important to understand dance in relation to the context of education. Rumi was a great poet, and his...
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Attan
THE STORY The Attan now has a national feeling. Attan is the only thing about which people can unite. Everyone gets up to dance Attan...
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Bacha Bazi
THE STORY Bachi bazi - I think it is also important that women are involved in the equation and that they make it more complicated. After...
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Qataghani
THE STORY In these solo dances, one person dances and the other people stand around encouraging the dancer through clapping. It’s a shame...
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Attan
THE STORY Attan is a symbol of unity. It not only belongs to a single province but to all of Afghanistan. In the north, some Attan...
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Waltz
THE STORY I came to Germany in 1992, but I left Afghanistan in the mid-‘80s because I was sent with the Afghan government to study in...
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![Attan](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/af5be7_7d538fad601d4c95926a1fb483f738ea~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_473,h_328,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/af5be7_7d538fad601d4c95926a1fb483f738ea~mv2.webp)
Attan
THE STORY At the Hamburger-Afghanistan Woche (a German-Afghan conference about Afghanistan), I've learned in the course of this seminar...
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