Hamida Ghafour
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Hamida Ghafour is a Canadian journalist and author of Afghan origin.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Ghafour was born in Kabul in 1977 and is named after her grandmother who was a writer and social reformer. Ghafour and her parents fled Afghanistan in 1981, when she was four years old, due to the Soviet–Afghan War.[1][2] In 1985 the family settled in Toronto. In 2003 she returned to Afghanistan as a journalist working for The Daily Telegraph, covering the reconstruction of Afghanistan.[1][2] She has also worked for Unreported World on Channel 4. She lives in London since 2001.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- The Sleeping Buddha (2007). London: Constable and Robinson / Toronto: McArthur & Company. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Hardcover); Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Paperback).
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Transcript of an interview conducted by Richard Fidler for the Australian Broadcasting Company
- Hamida Ghafour's profile on United Agents
- Article: "My countrymen called me a prostitute", Afghanistan Peace Organization, 26 October 2004
- Channel 4 - Unreported World: "Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes" (Series 2007, Episode 4)
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