Watch Now: Building Communities: How the Arts Can Help Afghan Refugees

When the US abruptly withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, leaving it to Taliban rule, many activists and artists had no choice but to flee their homes and livelihoods. They are among the two million Afghan refugees and asylum seekers scattered across the world, and another two million displaced internally.

In this Global Lens cultural program, Jahan Ara Rafi, an Afghan artist resettled in the United States, and Valerie Plesch, a photojournalist who has documented the experiences of Afghan refugees, will look at how the arts can connect members of the global Afghan diaspora with each other, as well as the future of the arts in Afghanistan itself.

Join Perry World House and the refugee advocacy group One Journey for this conversation on how the arts can help Afghan refugees to recover from the trauma they have suffered and rebuild their lives in new places.

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