# Hamida Ghafour

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{{short description|Canadian journalist and author}}
'''Hamida Ghafour''' is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) journalist and author of [Afghan](/source/Afghanistan) origin.

==Biography==
Ghafour was born in [Kabul](/source/Kabul) in 1977 and is named after her grandmother who was a writer and social reformer. Ghafour and her parents fled [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) in 1981, when she was four years old, due to the [Soviet–Afghan War](/source/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_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](/source/Toronto). In 2003 she returned to Afghanistan as a journalist working for [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph), covering the reconstruction of Afghanistan.<ref name = "womanshour"/><ref name = "buddhareview"/> She has also worked for [Unreported World](/source/Unreported_World) on [Channel 4](/source/Channel_4). She lives in [London](/source/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).

==References==
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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](/source/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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Category:Journalists from Kabul
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