A Snowy Week in Kabul
Francesca Recchia* | 1 Feb 2013
Photo credit: Conrad Blything Paraphrasing Marquez. Snow in the time of war. Kabul, 12 January 2013 It started to snow yesterday evening. My first snowfall in Kabul. It started slowly with small flakes that grew bigger through the night until dawn, when the city was entirely covered in white. This morning I go out early, on my own. There are very few people on...Snapshots from Kabul
Francesca Recchia* | 7 Nov 2012
Photo credit: Francesca Recchia. All rights reserved. I am currently in Afghanistan working on a book. Quite unexpectedly our research for this work has transformed into a quest for normality – a quest that seems at the core of the daily life of ordinary people. Normality is an underrated concept in the West, something boring and taken for granted. The...Two Kabuls: The Growing Economic Divide in Afghanistan
Wazhmah Osman* | 20 Nov 2010
I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the good years, in the early seventies. Among my fondest memories is walking to and from school holding the hand of my stylish mother who was then a French teacher at Lycee Malalai where I was in the first grade. I remember a lively city where men and women, Afghans and non-Afghans, wearing a variety of ethnic and western...Winter in Kabul
Francesca Recchia* | 4 Dec 2012
Boys at play in the Afghan village of Istalef It is my first winter in Kabul. I am witnessing the slow change of seasons. Flavors, scents, colors – the city is gradually transforming. Daily life goes on,...The Streets of Kabul
Francesca Recchia | 28 Jun 2012
In May of 2011, Muftah staff writer Francesca Recchia traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan where she captured the following images of a city persevering through foreign occupation and resilient after years of war and...
