Dispatches From Afghanistan

Fawzia Koofi

Fawzia Koofi was a member of peace negotiation team representing Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. She is the leader of a newly established political party called Movement for Change in Afghanistan. She was elected Member of Parliament from the Badakhshan province in September 2005, right after the first elected parliament after 33 years. Fawzia was elected as the first woman Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament in the history of Afghanistan. She has been titled as BBC 100 women, Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum, Fearless Mind of 2013 by TIMES magazine, 50 Great Leaders by Fortune magazine in 2021 and many more. Since her flee from Kabul, she has travelled across the world to meet world leaders, Human rights Organizations and Civil Society activists to keep the focus in Afghanistan in terms of Humanitarian and Political crises, especially the repression of women and girls. 

Christina Lamb

Christina Lamb is Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times and one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists She is the best-selling author of nine books including Farewell Kabul, The Africa House, and The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-wrote the international bestseller I am Malala with Malala Yousafzai and The Girl from Aleppo with Nujeen Mustafa. Her latest book Our Bodies, Their Battlefields about sexual violence in conflict won the first Pilecki Institute award for war reporting and was shortlisted for Britain’s top non-fiction award, the Baillie Gifford Prize, as well as the Orwell Prize and the New York Public Library Bernstein award.

Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet is an award winning Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter for BBC World News television and BBC World Service Radio. She played a key role in the BBC’s coverage of the “Arab Spring” across the Middle East and North Africa and has covered all the major stories in the region for the past 20 years. She is a regular visitor to Afghanistan and Pakistan from where she has been reporting since 1988.

Jon Lee Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson is an American journalist and author. A staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, he has specialised in reporting on political violence during his career, and has covered over two dozen conflicts around the world. He has authored a number of books, including Guerrillas, The Fall of Baghdad, and Che Guevara, a Revolutionary Life. He lives in Dorset, England.

Hannah MacInnes