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Nelufar Hedayat

Nelufar Hedayat is an Afghan-British journalist, and presenter and co-director of the documentary In Real Life: the God Thieves

March 2022

  • A woman and her children at a clinic for displaced people near Herat, Afghanistan.

    The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous

    Nelufar Hedayat
    Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this crisis?, says journalist and documentary maker Nelufar Hedayat

August 2021

  • Kabul

    I fear for my family in Kabul, but I know the Taliban can be resisted

    Nelufar Hedayat
    My relatives refuse to be forced back into their homes. Talking to them is heart-wrenching, but leaves me with hope, says Afghan-British journalist Nelufar Hedayat

May 2015

  • Afghanistan - Kabul - Modern Afghan Wedding Party

    Why Kabul must leave the big fat Afghan wedding alone

    Nelufar Hedayat
    The government is curbing Afghans’ expensive, lavish nuptials. But in a poor country scarred by war with little to celebrate, these weddings offer vital escape