On July 8, Afghanistan’s first female nominee for the country’s supreme court, Anisa Rassouli, failed to win enough votes in parliament, coming up just nine votes short of necessary 97 required for her nomination to pass. One member of Parliament,...
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Tune in on Saturday 13 June from 2.30pm-3.30pm. Heidi will be on Resonance FM as part of a programme called ‘The News Agents”, a hybrid news-arts programme curated by Jude Cowan Montague and team. Summary: Kabul is one of the fastest growing citi...
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Thrilled to see Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe in The Lady's summer reading list!
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It’s official! The paperback edition of Notes from the Kabul Cafe is LAUNCHED. The crowd gathered at Daunt Books in Chelsea to celebrate and to mark the publication of two other Enhance Editions titles: Marion Molteno’s Uncertain Light and Hector ...
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This is an extract from a review of Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe published by the Mail Online. To read the full article visit the Mail Online website. Dispatches From The Kabul Cafe by Heidi Kingstone (Advance Editions £10.99) Samuel Johnson...
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Last night Heidi appeared at the Asia House Literary Festival in front of a really engaged and intelligent crowd – and in conversation with the wonderful Jemimah Steinfeld. Event Details Kabul has dominated headlines for the past decade but not ...
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A new interview on BFBS Radio current affairs programme, Sitrep. Dedicated to serving the British Armed Forces, BFBS covers defence issues, foreign policy and other stories affecting the Forces community. It was a wonderful opportunity to discuss...
Continue readingA mention in Andy McSmith's Diary in The Independent: Heidi Kingstone, a London-based Canadian journalist and the author of Dispatches from the Kabul Café – which reads like a collection of wildly imagined short stories but is all true – knew the...
Continue readingHeidi joins Joe Warmington on Sun Radio's The Late Shift for an interview, discussing Dispatches from the Kabul Café and life in Afghanistan.
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Dispatches is a beautifully-written, innovative and original piece of travel journalism which is well worth a read. What I really like about this book – apart from the descriptions of Kabul, its landscape and its people – is the fact that the au...
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