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Heidi Kingstone
Heidi Kingstone is a foreign correspondent with wide experience covering human rights issues, conflict and politics. She has written for Britain’s leading publications, including T...view moreHeidi Kingstone is a foreign correspondent with wide experience covering human rights issues, conflict and politics. She has written for Britain’s leading publications, including The Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday.
Her commitment to reporting important and neglected stories has taken her to some of the most desperate places on the planet. She has covered disease and poverty from Mali to Sierra Leone; life in Darfur; and water wars between Palestine and Israel. In 2009 Canada’s National Post commissioned her to write a four-part series on the ‘Worst Places in the World’.
In 2008 she visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo to write about the impending humanitarian crisis now gripping the country. In Kenya, Kingstone reported from Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, just after the country’s violent 2008 elections. In 2009 she wrote about the plight of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
She has also written extensively on Iraq, where she travelled to Baghdad, Basra and Kurdistan in 2003 and 2004. From 2007 until 2011, she travelled and lived in Afghanistan, writing more than 40 stories. Over the course of her career she has interviewed key international figures from Benjamin Netanyahu and Princess Anne to Zaha Hadid and Daniel Liebeskind.
Heidi Kingstone lives in London. Dispatches from the Kabul Café (Advance Editions, 2014), a memoir of her time in Afghanistan, is her first book.view less