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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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...
Are We Normalising the Worst of Humanity? Are We Normalising the Worst of Humanity?
NARRATIVA360 - August 2025 Are We Normalising the Worst of Humanity? Genocide Keeps Growing Despite Cries of ‘Never Again’ — Are We Normalising the Worst of Humanity?By Heidi Kingstone Genocide was once a term reserved for the darkest chapters o...
The Genocide Convention The Genocide Convention
DAILY MAVERICK - August 2025 The Genocide Convention “Perhaps the time has come to critically examine the wording of the Genocide Convention” By Mukesh Kapila. Mukesh Kapila CBE is the former United Nations Resident and Humanitar...