Joanie de Rijke is a Dutch (war) journalist who works for Flemish media.
As a freelance journalist she has worked for P-Magazine, Revu and Knack. She specialises in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In her book 'In hands of the Taliban' (2009), Joanie de Rijke describes her personal experiences during the six-day Taliban kidnapping in November 2008. Around 11,000 copies of the book have been sold.
