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Nelufar Hedayat (born 1 January 1988) is a British journalist and presenter who hosts the podcast Course Correction and is the correspondent for

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. She has worked in television across the

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, as well as on

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'' newspaper, covering breaking news, live events and in-depth investigations in some of the world's most dangerous places. Her work often focuses on cultural upheaval experienced by women, children, and families during a conflict, especially in her native Afghanistan.

Background

Born in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

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, in 1988, Hedayat came to the United Kingdom from her war-torn homeland. Her mother, who was a civil engineer, took a job cleaning hotel rooms, and her father, a professor of mathematics, worked as a carpet salesman.Nelufar Hedayat
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'' Vanity Fair'', 14 November 2016. Hedayat has said: "Growing up in North London, identity was never really a big issue. I always felt I was free to be who I wanted to be, surrounded by a world where difference and eccentricity were the norm." She graduated from the

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with a BA Honours degree in English Literature.

Career

Hedayat joined

BBC Three BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34-year-olds, covering all genres including animation, comedy, curre ...

in 2009 and left in 2011 for BBC ''

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''. In 2014 she left the BBC and worked as a general reporter for ''

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''. In 2015–16, she worked on the documentary series ''The Traffickers'' for Lightbox Media. She joined the Fusion Media investigative team in late 2016 and is now a full-time

host. In 2017 she was named

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and Routes into Languages North West Journalist of the Year.

''Women, Weddings, War and Me''

The 2010 television documentary ''Women, Weddings, War and Me'', directed by

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, follows Hedayat as she returns to her homeland for the first time since leaving some 15 years earlier. She returned to Afghanistan to discover how the lives of women in Afghanistan had changed with the fall of the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

. She later said "I met with women who had been so defeated by a patriarchal society, they thought of themselves as second-class citizens. I found a world of extreme violence against them, where they were traded like animals – not treated as human beings. Girls were in prison for trying to escape abusive marriages. I cried with these women, tried to understand them and to comfort them. ...I came back to the UK knowing that I had changed. I was humbled by my experience, but there was an ever stronger feeling of thankfulness to my mother, who had saved me from such suffering." The documentary was shown on

from 2 March 2010. It also aired in

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on 17 May 2010 and it has received largely positive reviews, while scoring the highest audience approval rating for a documentary on any channel ever reported. The documentary has gone on to win the Broadcast Digital Award for Best Current Affairs' Programme.

''Music, Money and Hip Hop Honeys''

In this BBC Three documentary aired in 2011, Hedayat explores the world of hip-hop

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girls. She meets young women in the UK seeking careers as hip-hop models both in the UK and the US, but falling victim to financial and sexual exploitation.

''Vietnam's Dog Snatchers''

In her 2014 début for Channel 4's ''

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'' series, Hedayat went to uncover the secret world of the dog meat trade in

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

. Millions of dogs are killed every year to satisfy the demand for the meat. Often pets are stolen from homes because the demand is so high and police officers can do little but fine the thieves. Hedayat finds trucks crammed full of hundreds of dogs hungry and vomiting after being force-fed rice on the way to

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's dog meat only restaurants and meets the village that murdered the thieves plaguing them. Hedayat worked on the film with director Daniel Bogado.

''The Traffickers''

In her first eight-part documentary series, Hedayat investigates traffickers and illicit markets around the world, uncovering vast criminal networks enabled by middle men and corruption. For her work on the series, she won the 2017 Reporter/Correspondent

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(presented by the Alliance for Women in Media), and was named Journalist of the Year at the Asian Media Awards.

Background

Career

''Women, Weddings, War and Me''

''Music, Money and Hip Hop Honeys''

''Vietnam's Dog Snatchers''

''The Traffickers''

Television

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