The Vanishing Girl of Kabul

A memoir that doubles as a warning. Zahra Joya writes for the women the world abandoned to the Taliban’s brutal gender apartheid - and refuses to let us forget them. [She] is one of the bravest journalists of our time. * Malala Yousafzai, education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history *
Beautifully written and powerfully told. Joya’s story will leave you angry, but also awed that in this painful history there’s still profound hope. An impressive memoir of a truly inspiring individual * Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent and senior presenter for the BBC and the author of The Finest Hotel in Kabul *
A brave and beautiful book which touches the soul, the heart and the mind * Sandi Toksvig, broadcaster and comedian *
In The Vanishing Girl of Kabul Zahra Joya writes with great insight and compassion about Afghanistan’s girls and women. This book is a unique and compelling account of refusing to be silenced or erased. It is about extraordinary courage and refusing to submit to oppression. Above all it is about hope and optimism, and one woman’s fight for freedom * Sir Laurie Bristow, Former British ambassador to Afghanistan and President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge University *

Zahra Joya is a leading human rights journalist living in exile in London. She was airlifted out of Kabul in the chaotic days of the Taliban’s takeover of the country, in August 2021. A year earlier, Joya founded Rukhshana Media, Afghanistan’s first news agency dedicated to the stories of women. She is a former Time Magazine Woman of the Year and has won awards and accolades across the world, including the Marie Colvin Award, the Gates Foundation Change Maker, and CNN Champion for Change. She was also named one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2022.

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