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"From the day that the Taliban returned back to Kabul, you see that Afghanistan has been once again into a silent nation."

With the Taliban in power, "It's clear that the music is not welcome in Afghanistan," says Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghan music institute's founder and director. The Taliban banned music the last time they were in power But we will never lose hope one day we could return back to Afghanistan."įor now, that possibility seems remote. "But at the same time, leaving your world behind, your homeland, whatever you have, is extremely tough, extremely tough. "Sometimes we feel happy, we are safe," Wali, 38, says. They're facing a future in an unfamiliar place. Most evacuees could bring very few belongings with them. Many of the students left parents and other loved ones behind. It refers to an intense longing, a sense of melancholy. There's a Portuguese word that sums up how this song makes them feel now - saudade.

"When we were in Afghanistan," he says, "it did not feel like that. Wali, the institute's program manager, pauses before speaking. He is one of the lucky few who was able to take his own musical instrument with him when he fled Afghanistan.

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Stay positive." NPR is not using the full names of students and staff affiliated with the school because they still have family in Afghanistan and want to protect their privacy.įayaz, 19, holds his rubab. One of the students, 18-year-old violinist Sevinch, is wearing jeans, and on her feet are pink slides with the message: "The world is yours. For the musicians, there's relief combined with sadness The youngest among them are newborn baby boys the oldest are grandparents in their 80s. They plan to rebuild their school - and lives - in Portugal, which has granted them asylum. Last week, the entire group of 273 landed in Lisbon on an SAS charter flight. On a recent visit, the classroom walls were covered in large, handwritten sheets of paper showing basic vocabulary, verb conjugations and phrases in Portuguese - preparation for the group's next destination. 2, nearly 300 students, faculty and family members affiliated with the music school all made it safely to Doha by mid-November. After the Taliban took over Afghanistan, members of the institute feared for their lives. It's a classroom for students and faculty of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music - Kabul's first and only music academy, an internationally famous school teaching Afghan and Western music. World What the Taliban really want from the world, in their own words