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‘The Taliban tried to silence us’: the musicians who escaped to Portugal
With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preserved
A stone’s throw from Portugal’s oldest cathedral and buzzing bakeries serving up pastéis de nata, the complex notes of a sitar fill the ground floor of an unassuming building in the northern city of Braga.
The soft strumming belies the radical nature of the mission that has taken root here: to preserve Afghan music and use it as a tool to counter those who want to eradicate it.
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