Hamida Ghafour is a
Canadian journalist and author of
Afghan origin.
Biography
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.
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.
She has also worked for
Unreported World
''Unreported World'' is a British foreign affairs program made by ITN Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its forty-two seasons, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world i ...
on
Channel 4. She lives in
London since 2001.
Bibliography
*''The Sleeping Buddha'' (2007). London: Constable and Robinson / Toronto: McArthur & Company. (Hardcover); (Paperback).
References
External links
Transcript of an interview conducted by Richard Fidlerfor the
Australian Broadcasting CompanyHamida 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)
1977 births
Afghan emigrants to Canada
Living people
Journalists from Toronto
People from Kabul
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