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A solitary journey in the Afghans\u2019 land. Sharing sleep, efforts, hunger, cold, fear, whispers, laugh, prayers. I traveled alone, by bus, taxi, horses, trucks, on yak-back, from the Iranian to the Chinese border, on the Wakhan snows, armed with a notebook and a Leica.\u00a0Balkh, Panjshir, Samanghan, Herat, Kabul, Jalalabad, Badakshan, Pamir Khord, Khost wa Firing: weaving all the time in order to avoid the bandits, and following the complex security geography that all Afghans know very \u00a0well.\u00a0When speaking to Afghans, I discovered that war is a multi-million self-fuelling\u00a0 machine, that just to keep working goes as far as paying in a roundabout way bribes to its own enemies.\u00a0From the time when I refused to travel \u201cembedded\u201d in a military unit \u2013 wearing a Kevlar helmet \u2013 I re-discovered the world that Europeans, from Maillart to Bouvier, loved a lot, that same world that after ten years of military presence, we have given up to know.\u00a0The Sufis cradle. The tolerant Islam s cradle. The cradle that the West likes to ignore, as it does in Bosnia.\u00a0A land of poets that Talibans hate, and\u00a0 our bipolar crash scheme threats.\u00a0A naked and mineral country, where a tree has an unrivalled majesty, where each person has no room for arrogance.\u00a0Deserts where the call \u201cGod is great\u201d sounds much purer than anywhere else.\u00a0A dazzling land with endless skies, so flooded with sun to the point that in order to give new meaning to light, fire, and shining looks it is necessary to seek shelter in the shade. Inside, at sunrise, at sunset. A desperate country where women are crushed by tribalism and opium is the only medicine of the poor, but where a foreign woman may be welcomed in a mosque and where the stranger\u2019s enchantment is considered as a blessing.\u00a0\u00a0In this country one risks his\/her own life just by going to school and\u00a0 in the outskirts children wake up at four a.m. to go get some water on donkeys\u2019 back.\u00a0Yet, \u00a0in this country there is irony, and people laugh even in their \u00a0darkest moments, have affection and show respect to the eldest, are conscious that their only chance for a future life is in schools and in their children, the men of tomorrow.\u00a0In the bright garden of Afghanistan I have followed by instinct its paths, and found embers of hope in the most un-hoped for places, at the darkest bottom of desperation.<\/p>\n

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TED<\/a>\u00a0Global 2011<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

video <\/a>\u00a0Mantova Festivaletteratura<\/p>\n

NUR<\/a> TIME LightBox<\/p>\n

The Hazara. \u00a0<\/em>Granta Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

video <\/a>\u00a0 “Nur. Afghan Diaries” \u00a0Documentary Theater<\/p>\n

The Aftermath<\/a> Project Grant Winner 2010<\/p>\n

al Jazeera<\/a>\u00a0film<\/p>\n

ANI<\/a> PixPalace 2016 exhibition<\/p>\n

THE VOICES OF SILENCE gallery<\/a>\u00a0exposition “Nur”, Dodge Palace, Venice<\/p>\n

gallery<\/a> exposition “Nur”, Triest, former Fish – Hall of Enchantment, Italy<\/p>\n

“Another Afghanistan”, video<\/a> La Repubblica<\/p>\n

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