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.

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The cost of cheap sweetness: Chocolate still depends on child labor The cost of cheap sweetness: Chocolate still depends on child labor
POLITICO - December 2025 The cost of cheap sweetness: Chocolate still depends on child labor Until the industry pays a fair price and governments enforce real accountability, every bar of chocolate remains an unpaid moral debt. By Heidi Kingstone Heidi Kingstone is a ...
The Pebbles - Curated Portrait Photography The Pebbles - Curated Portrait Photography
The Pebbles - August 2025 The Pebbles - Curated Portrait Photography In 2025 Heidi was featured in 'The Pebbles', a collection of photograophic portraits curated by journalist, Elizabeth Filippouli and photographer, Sebastian Böttcher. See: THE P...
10 Questions with Heidi 10 Questions with Heidi
NARRATIVA360 - August 2025 10 Questions with Heidi 1.) Your article powerfully weaves personal narratives, legal history, and current affairs. What initially drew you to write about genocide, especially at a time when the word s...