C. P. W. Gammell

Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, C. P. W. Gammell is a historian of Afghanistan and Iran who has written widely on Herat’s history. He has worked in Afghanistan and Iran since 2009, including interpreting Dari and Pashtu for the International Committee of the Red Cross and advising UNESCO. A former British diplomat, he appears regularly on Sky News, BBC Persian and a range of podcasts, among others