My Dear Kabul and Untold Narratives event at Wimbledon Book Fest 2024

Stories of Afghanistan: Reporting from the front line, Wimbledon BookFest

October 19, 2024

Writer Batool Haidari and translator Parwana Fayyaz joined Elizabeth Briggs from Saqi Books to discuss the making of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) and War & Peace & War: 20 Years in Afghanistan (Ithaka Press, 2024) with author and former BBC South Asia correspondent, Andrew North.

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