Yvonne Ridley (born 1968, Stanley, County Durham, England) is a British journalist and Respect Party politician best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release.
Personal life
Ridley has married four times. Her first husband was Daoud Zaaroura, a former Palestine Liberation Organization officer. Zaaroura was a PLO colonel when Ridley met him in Cyprus, where she was working on an assignment for the Newcastle-based Sunday Sun. They had one daughter called Daisy who was born in 1992. Her third husband was the Iraqi-born Israeli businessman, Ilan Roni Hermosh, to whom she was married until 1999.
