Zahra Joya - 'The Vanishing Girl of Kabul'
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Zahra Joya - 'The Vanishing Girl of Kabul'

Zahra Joya - 'The Vanishing Girl of Kabul'

Mon 1st Jan 0001 - Tues 13th Oct 2026

It is five years now since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan and women have been banned from every aspect of their lives.

Zahra Joya is a journalist from Afghanistan, now exiled in London, and is the founder of “ Rukhshana Media “, one of Afghanistan's first news agencies dedicated to women's stories.  Her book, “ The Vanishing Girl of Kabul “ has just been published in Britain.


Zahra and her team continue reporting under immense danger and her courageous journalism has earned global recognition, including as one of Time Magazine’s “ Women of The Year in 2022 “, “ The U.S. Foreign Press Award for 2022 “ from the U.S. Foreign Press Correspondents Association Award, and she was among BBC’s “ 100 Women “ in 2022. 

She is now a Fellow at Hughes Hall at Cambridge University and a colleague of Sir Laurie Bristow, the last British Ambassador in Kabul, who gave such a memorable talk - " Kabul - Final Call " - last summer at Avoncroft Museum.

 

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