The Vanishing Girl of Kabul - Betrayal, Hope and an Extraordinary Fight for Women's Rights

About the author

Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist now exiled in London, and is the founder of Rukhshana Media, one of Afghanistan's first news agencies dedicated to women's stories. Joya and her team continue reporting under immense danger. Her courageous journalism has earned global recognition, including the Foreign Press 2022 Award, Louis M. Lyons Award, Goalkeepers Changemaker 2022 and Marie Colvin Award. She was named as TIME Woman of the Year in 2022, was among BBC's 100 Women and was honoured with Spain's Llibertat d'Expressio 2022 award. She is a Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist and global news editor at New Lines Magazine in London. She has covered Afghan refugees and the war in Ukraine for TIME, spent nearly a decade in Russia as a Reuters and Washington Post correspondent, and exposed abuses against Kazakh women in Chinese camps. A former Reuters senior correspondent in Afghanistan, she founded Sahar Speaks, empowering Afghan female journalists, earning the British Press Award for Innovation (2016). A Stanford JSK Fellow, she holds degrees in Russian Studies and serves on Rukhshana Media's board.

Product details

• Authors: Zahra Joya
• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781408783634
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-8363-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Assisted by: Amie Ferris-Rotman
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: historical, political and military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern