{{short description|Canadian journalist and author}} '''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.<ref name = "womanshour">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2007_14_wed.shtml |title= Hamida Ghafour|author= |date=April 4, 2007 |website=bbc.co.uk |publisher= BBC|access-date= April 30, 2021|quote=}}</ref><ref name = "buddhareview">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/13/biography.features1 |title= Even in the hell of Kabul, hope springs eternal|first=Selina|last=Mills|date= May 12, 2007|website= www.theguardian.com|publisher=The Guardian |access-date= April 30, 2021|quote=}}</ref> 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.<ref name = "womanshour"/><ref name = "buddhareview"/> She has also worked for Unreported World on Channel 4. She lives in London since 2001.

==Bibliography== *''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).

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==External links== *[http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1899996.htm?queensland Transcript of an interview conducted by Richard Fidler]{{Dead link|date=March 2026}} for the Australian Broadcasting Company *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101201213835/http://unitedagents.co.uk/hamida-ghafour Hamida Ghafour's profile on United Agents] *Article: [http://www.afghanistan.org/news_detail.asp?17220 "My countrymen called me a prostitute"],{{Dead link|date=March 2026}} ''Afghanistan Peace Organization'', 26 October 2004 *Channel 4 - Unreported World: [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2007/episode-4/ "Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes"]{{Dead link|date=March 2026}} (Series 2007, Episode 4)

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