This is an edited version of a piece that originally appeared as:

• “Harmeet Sooden Interviewed by Sahar Ghumkhor”, Craccum, University of Auckland,  23 July 2006.

• “Harmeet Sooden Interviewed by Sahar Ghumkhor”, Scoop News, 15 August 2006.

• “Harmeet Sooden interviewed by Sahar Ghumkhor”, INTIFADA Magazine, Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Auckland, September 2006, pp. 10-17.

• “An Interview with Harmeet Sooden”, 118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq (Canadian Edition), BookSurge, 2008, pp. 171-78.

It was not a live interview but one based on email exchanges. This version has been edited to include corrections and clarifications.