Christina Lamb is a leading British foreign correspondent. Currently she is working for The Sunday Times and is an expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

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She is a regular commentator on Sky, BBC TV and radio and has lectured and spoken at conferences all over the world from the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Edinburgh Festival to NATO summits and the National Library in Wellington, New Zealand.

After graduating from Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics, she started her work with Financial Times. But soon, as described in her book, Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands, she became the part of exotic life where men were equivalent to gods.

Lamb started at the age of 21 ,in Peshawar, to report on the war in Afghanistan. The coverage won her Young Journalist of the Year award in the British Press Awards in 1988. She has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times since for her reporting on South Africa, Brazil, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe.

She is on the board of Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and a patron of the charities Afghan Connection and Hope for Children. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she is married with a son.

Christina has authored some best-selling books like I Am Malala with Malala Yousafzai, The Africa House as well as House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe; Waiting For Allah: Pakistan’s Struggle for Democracy; and The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, which was runner-up for Best Nonfiction book in the Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Awards. Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands,” a collection of her reportage. Her new book The Retreat is coming this year in March. As amazon describes it,  is the gripping account of how the West's politicians forgot about this troubled region, the root of the War on Terror, when pursuing their goals in Iraq.

Christina’s work has appeared in the New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Time magazine and Conde-Nast Traveller. As the first journalist to have access to the transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, her investigation was the subject of an ABC Nightline programme.