Hamida Ghafour was four years old when her parents fled Afghanistan following the Russian invasion of 1979. In 2003 she returned to her long-lost homeland as a journalist to cover her country after the fall of the Taliban. Hamida discusses the hopes and losses of the country she now sees as her homeland.
The Sleeping Buddha by Hamida Ghafour is published by Constable and Robinson, ISBN: 978-1-84529-313-0.
