Vanishing Girl of Kabul

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 - an online news source for Afghan woman. 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 named one of BBC's 100 Women in 2022.