Enemies of Allah, infidels. One of the smallest and most combative populations of the Earth is called Kafir. But the thousand Kafirs who have survived in a mountainous paradise in the midst of the rocky labyrinths of the Hindu Kush, who have never been tamed and have never been Islamized, proclaim themselves Kalash. Free men. Three valleys in the high […]

Asian art in general does not distinguish between major arts and minor arts, between creative arts and decorative arts. Sacred by essence and inspiration, it embraces all activities that are the result of a skill, from music to sculpture, from architecture to weaving and to carpentry. An artist is not like one in the West, a genius freed by any […]

At the dawn of a freezing but very bright day, we arrive at the Afghan border in our irreplaceable “Volkswagen Beetle”. We enter legendary Aghanistan after having crossed Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. October 1970. That was the start of our endless voyage towards the discovery of the East. We reach the city of Kandahar, the cultural capital of the […]