The Give Yourself Permission Anthology is on its way! Due to launch on November 15th, this anthology includes inspirational and insightful true stories of risk-taking, life changes and successful outcomes. Heidi’s chapter entitled Give Yourself P...
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Heidi will be appearing at Jewish Book Week 2017. She will be in conversation with Linda Kelsey at JW3 on Wednesday March 1st at 1.00pm, discussing ‘Exceptional Women’. Heidi Kingstone is a Canadian-born foreign correspondent, who writes for Brit...
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On July 29th, Heidi Kingstone was a panelist at the Women and War Festival in London. Her session, 'Voices of War', included discussion with Frank Ledwidge, a former military intelligence officer and author of Losing Small Wars and Investment in ...
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This month Heidi is participating in the Women and War Festival in London. This month long multi-discipline festival will document, explore and give voice to the experiences of women from across the centuries and the world before during and after ...
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Heidi comments on Brexit for Turkish publication Milliyet. İngiltere’nin kaderini duygular belirleyecek İngiltere’nin kaderi bugün yapılacak AB referandumu ile şekillenecek. Akademisyenlere göre seçmen AB’de kalmanın ya da çıkmanın gerçek etkile...
Continue readingThe Women and War Festival will be held in London for the month of July, opening on July 4th. Here’s a look at some of its featured events: July 22nd of the festival is ‘Afghanistan Day’. At 3.00pm, an actor will read an extract from Dispatches...
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Women and War is a month long festival examining the effect of warfare on women worldwide. Bringing together an extraordinary span of international work, and performers from all continents, the festival will showcase cutting-edge drama, comedy, da...
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On May 18th, Heidi participated in Hub Dot‘s Storytelling Travellers panel. Eva from Hub Dot recaps the event: Some of us travel to relax, others to escape and sometimes, travel is forced upon us. So why did Hub Dot host an event called the Story...
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Great to be ‘In Conversation’ at the fabulous Whitstable Literary Festival on Sunday, May 15th, talking about Dispatches from the Kabul Café. The Library overflowed and the audience engaged in the ever-fascinating subject of Afghanistan. And it w...
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Where can you buy 913 Kalashnikovs? How do you tell a friend her expat lover is never coming back? What’s it like to date a mercenary? In 2007, Canadian journalist Heidi Kingstone arrived in Kabul to uncover the mysteries of this turbulent corner ...
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