Francesca Recchia @kiccovich

2014 is slowly running its course. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is expected to withdraw by the end of the year retaining only a very...

From its inception, photography has been an integral part of war and military operations. Photographers have been embedded with soldiers since the 1850s and...

John Little is a manager of large databases with a technology background. He is the heart and soul behind Blogs of War, one of the most thorough and well...

War, violence and political instability have had a dramatic impact on the growth and development of cultural production in Afghanistan.  Waves of economic and...

On May 25th 2013, Yazmany Alboreda, an American artist of Colombian origins, handed out ten thousand pink balloons in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The...

Cyber warfare, particularly drone warfare, is the object of ongoing heated debate. Critics point to its heavy human and financial costs. For supporters,...

Childhood cannot be taken for granted in a place like Afghanistan. On a walk through Kabul, it is inevitable to meet street children by the hundreds,...

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...

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,...

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...

Patrick Hennessey was a member of the British Army until 2009, when he started practicing as a barrister in the UK. He trained at the Royal Military Academy...

Many years ago, in 2003, I worked with an Italian research agency called multiplicity. At the time, we were trying to understand the nature of the Israeli...

The struggle for Kurdish self-determination is a century old story of conspiracies, revolts, and repressions. With a population of twenty-four to twenty-seven...

In May of 2011, Muftah staff writer Francesca Recchia traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan where she captured the following images of a city persevering through...

The beginning of the day this morning was not one of the lightest. The gray sky above Berlin was met with news about the fire at Dastgeer Sahib, a Sufi shrine...

The Autonomous Region of Kurdistan has in recent years been in the news as the "Other Iraq". In 2011, National Geographic described it as an oasis of peace and...