Journalism

April 2016

Myth of Stressed-out Soldiers on the Street

First published in the May 2016 issue of Standpoint. Some armed forces personnel return from war with post-traumatic stress disorder. But the problem is not as common as soften believed. Download the article as a PDF here.

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February 2016

The Land Where History Repeats Itself as Tragedy

First published in the March 2016 issue of Standpoint.  Also published in the 28 February 2016 issue of the Moby Media Group eNewsletter. As Nato forces leave and Isis gains ground, Afghanistan continues to fascinate, inspire and dismay the West...

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February 2016

Afghanistan in the balance

This article about our fascination with Afghanistan was published by Mantraya, on 23 February 2016. Afghanistan may no longer command the front page but somehow our fascination with the country is like an addiction to heroin, and we keep going ba...

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December 2015

Arafat is Riding a Tiger

Published by The Sunday Independent, 17 July 1999 In an exclusive interview with Heidi Kingstone, Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Palestinian leader to quell terrorism and explains why he will never share Jerusalem. Download this article as a PD...

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December 2015

Mental Health in Afghanistan

Published by The Big Issue, 23 January 2009 Mental health remains the orphan child of public health, and even more so in fragile states where health care systems are often non- existent or barely functioning. Psychosis and depression are still st...

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December 2015

Saddam Hussein's Would-Be Successors

Published by The Jerusalem Report,  5 June 2002 With President Bush pledging to get rid of Saddam, Heidi Kingstone reports on rival and potential heirs gearing up to seize the moment. Download this article as a PDF.

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November 2015

Heaven or Hell?

Vassula Rydén has written a book called Heaven is Real But So is Hell about the conversations she has had with God, Jesus, and Daniel, her guardian angel since 1985. Remarkably, it has sold 50,000 copies in the USA, so in preparation for our inter...

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November 2015

Elephant Chickens

Landing in Kabul always rattled me, with the slight uncertainty of what lay ahead. But on the November day that I re-entered I quickly dropped my suitcase at my house, called a taxi, and headed over to the American embassy compound. Other Heidi, ...

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November 2015

Supporting the community in Khartoum

I love discovering beauty products when I travel and I am always compelled to buy them, especially when they support local communities and help women, and in Khartoum, where the Blue and White Niles meet, I came across Lulu Life cream. The desert ...

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November 2015

100 People, 100 Places: Ahmad Chalabi

Ahmad Chalabi sat on the back of the sofa in the makeshift HQ in northern Iraq in early 2003, weeks before the impending invasion into Iraq. He had just come back inside the large house crammed full of people after taking a satellite call from Don...

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