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. 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. 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. (Hardcover); (Paperback). References External links 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) 1977 births Afghan emigrants to Canada Living people Journalists from Toronto People from Kabul