Lyse Doucet on Reporting from the Frontlines (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Today we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with Chief International correspondent Lise Dusset on reporting from the front lines. Dusset was joined in conversation by fellow broadcaster and international editor for Channel 4, Lindsay Hilsome. The pair reflected on 40 years of telling human centred stories of conflict and

Lord Dusset's new book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul. If you missed the first part of this discussion, we recommend skipping back an episode to get up to speed. Now let's rejoin the conversation live at the Kiln Theatre in London. There's another sentence a bit later on, so Lise, you know, describes how basically the guests all flee because they know that the Taliban is coming. And this is one of the sort of things about your writing which I love.

You write, the last outfit of her special day Her pure white wedding dress, gleaming with dreams, still hung on its hanger in her bridal changing room. You know, it just makes you, because I I think one of the things I love about that that sort of scene is that it's very vivid the way you write it. But again, it's about what image do we have of Afghans and Afghanistan? And we're very familiar, obviously, now with the Taliban, and we're very familiar with women in their their burkas and so on.

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