Welcome to the world of Heidi Kingstone, foreign correspondent and author of Dispatches from the Kabul Café (2015) and Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions (2024)

I’ve written for some of the world’s leading publications, covering stories on human rights issues, conflict and politics and reporting from places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Mali, Darfur and the Middle East. Along the way, I’ve interviewed key international figures from Benjamin Netanyahu and Princess Anne to Zaha Hadid and Daniel Liebeskind. I was recently appointed as an Advisor to Mantraya Institute for Strategic Studies.

My first book, Dispatches from the Kabul Café, is a memoir of my time reporting from Afghanistan over a four year period. If you’d like to read extra dispatches on the various figures, sights and sounds of Afghanistan, take a look at 100 People, 100 Places. My second book, Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions, tells the story of the last 120 years of genocide, its impact on the world and its relevance today.

CONTACT ME: hkingstone@gmail.com