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Eva Haller Salon - Dr. Ahmad Sarmast & Lesley Rosenthal

Directed by: Eva Haller | Starring: Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, Lesley Rosenthal | 2025 | United States

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Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan's first Ph.D. ethnomusicologist, founded the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a co-educational school in Kabul in 2010. Tragically, in 2021, the Taliban came back into power and made a beeline for the school. Dr. Sarmast, together with Lesley Rosenthal, the President of Friends of ANIM, will share the dramatic story of what happened next.

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