SAF-Afghanistan Introduction & News

News NCR, Delhi, India - 26th August 2021

Ms Anarkali Kaur Honaryar winner of the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize in 2011, is evacuated from Afghanistan by India

Anarkali Kaur Honaryar's political career started after her father asked her to contest the elections in 2010. She was a dentist working with Afghanistan human rights commission and visited different provinces to help women and families in conflict with the law.

News Afghanistan, Kabul - 8th March 2021

Mr. Hamidullah Arefi appointed as the new Vice Chairperson of SAF- Afghanistan Chapter

News Museum in Kiev, Ukraine - 5th August 2020

Mr. Aziz Hazara, Alumnus (2017 Batch) of UMISAA from Afghanistan among 21 finalists in Future Generation Art Prize

Mr Aziz Hazara, graduated from UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Art, Lahore, Pakistan (UMISSA) in 2017 among 21 shortlist finalists over 11,700 entries by artists across almost 200 countries...

News New York, Barcelona, Geneva and Winnipeg Canada - 27th July 2020

Forthcoming Solo Exhibitions of Mr Aziz Hazara , Alumnus (2017 Batch) of UMISAA

Mr Aziz Hazara from Afghanistan, graduated from UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Art, Lahore, Pakistan (UMISSA) in 2017 having 4 Solo Exhibition in 2020-21

News UMISAA, Pakistan - 9th February 2018

UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Arts (UMISAA) announces a fully paid scholarship for a female from Afghanistan

News Paris, France - 29th January 2018

Ms Kubra Khademi, Alumna, UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Arts (UMISAA) exhibiting 12 ministry of Culture

Kubra Khademi is an Afghan artist who was born 1989. She is an Afghan performance artist and a feminist based in Paris. Through her practice, Khademi explores her life as a refugee and a woman. She studied fine arts at Kabul University, before attending UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Arts (UMISAA) at Beaconhouse National University

News Goa, India - 15th December 2017

UMISAA scholars Mr. Sher Ali & Ms. Lati Attaii selected to participate in young subcontinent project of Serendipity Arts

News Kabul, Afghanistan - 30th November 2015

SAF-Afghanistan seeks Herat’s cultural heritage preservation through “Dissemination Courses”

One-time capital of the Timurid empire and seat of learning and the arts, Herat has flourished throughout history as a rich city-state, and been repeatedly fought over. The city is as much Persian as it is Afghan, and wears an air of independence as the country’s old cultural heart.

News Bamyan, Afghanistan - 18th September 2015

UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Center for Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage organised an Awareness course in Bamyan

SAF-Afghanistan and UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Center for Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage (UMCPACH) organized an awareness course on Afghanistan's cultural heritage preservation in the first Cultural Capital of SAARC, Bamyan....

News Kabul, Afghanistan - 16th July 2015

Appreciation letter to Mme Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO by Prof Omara Khan Masoudi,Chairman, SAF-Afghanistan

wanted to take a moment to say how much I appreciated your recent statement expressing concern over the destruction of cultural heritages in Iraq and Syria, Mali and Afghanistan. Your outstanding and tireless efforts to preserve world’s shared cultural wealth is invaluable. I heard through the news that you referred to the destruction of historic monuments and cultural heritages of religious, education, art .....