Arson Fahim with World Cafe host Raina Douris
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Arson Fahim with World Cafe host Raina Douris
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The primary time Arson Fahim noticed a piano is seared into his reminiscence. He was a younger boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he noticed the movie The Pianist.
“I noticed this film and I used to be, like, ‘Wow, how can no matter this factor is save an individual’s life? How can it’s so highly effective?’ “
That second sparked his deep love of music, which he pursued after returning to his residence nation. Fahim ultimately acquired a scholarship to check on the Longy Faculty of Music of Bard Faculty. He remembers leaving for Boston simply days earlier than the Taliban took over Afghanistan, banning music solely.
“I really feel like music is taken as a right a lot that while you learn the headline — ‘Taliban bans music’ or no matter — you do not truly course of it,” he says. “I really feel like folks hear about it, or examine it, however they do not notice what which means.”
For the ultimate story from our Sense of Place: Boston sequence, Fahim shares his story and talks about how he has used music to combat for change, help Afghan musicians and unfold consciousness.