Nadene Ghouri

Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning journalist, writer and presenter. Today she is a regular voice on BBC radio 4 current affairs, reporting on flagship weekly programmes such as Crossing Continents and The Report. She also writes ground breaking global investigations for the Mail on Sunday’s LIVE magazine and has previously been a reporter for Al Jazeera English. She is co-author of Letters to my Daughters, the memoirs of female Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi. The book has been described as ‘spell-binding’, ‘powerful’ and ‘gripping’. It is now on release across Europe and Canada and will be published in the UK and USA later this year. Nadene began her career as a social affairs specialist reporting on the underbelly of British society as News Editor of The Big Issue Magazine and as social affairs correspondent of the Times Educational Supplement, before later making the move into broadcasting as a reporter on BBC radio 5 live. In 2001 she covered the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, an experience which led to her not only swapping the UK for the life of a roving war reporter but also to briefly open a now legendary Kabul based hotel, Afghan Garden. Since then Nadene has reported from conflicts in countries as diverse as Iran, DR Congo, Liberia, India, Gaza, Pakistan and Afghanistan.