Hamida Ghafour

She 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. In 1985 the family settled in Toronto. In 2003 she returned to Afghanistan to cover the reconstruction and first election for The Daily Telegraph. 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).

• BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour: Hamida Ghafour's profile
• 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
• Selina Mills, "Even in the hell of Kabul, hope springs eternal" (Review of The Sleeping Buddha), The Observer, 13 May 2007
• Channel 4 - Unreported World: "Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes" (Series 2007, Episode 4)