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....

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...

THE STORY Those Afghans who are living in Iran are different from those who raised in Afghanistan. You can dance before your cousin in...

THE STORY I think it’s important to understand dance in relation to the context of education. Rumi was a great poet, and his...

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...

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...

THE STORY In these solo dances, one person dances and the other people stand around encouraging the dancer through clapping. It’s a shame...

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...

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...

THE STORY At the Hamburger-Afghanistan Woche (a German-Afghan conference about Afghanistan), I've learned in the course of this seminar...