When the Taliban charged in to Afghanistan’s state-run film company in the mid-1990s intent on destroying all the movies, Habibullah Ali risked everything to save them. He hid thousands of reels of ...
A movie theatre that bore witness to Afghanistan's modern history - from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers - has ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies ...