Hamida Ghafour

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.

• The Sleeping Buddha (2007). London: Constable and Robinson / Toronto: McArthur & Company. ISBN 978-1-84529-313-0 (Hardcover); ISBN 978-1-55278-693-2 (Paperback).

• 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)