Safia Shah
| Safia Nafisa Shah | |
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Safia Shah
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| Born |
16 November 1966 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Editor, freelance writer and producer, independent retailer |
| Spouse(s) | Ian Thomas |
| Children | 2 children |
| Parent(s) | Idries Shah, Cynthia (Kashfi) Kabraji |
| Relatives | Shah family |
| Website | safiashah |
Safia Shah (Persian: سفیا شاه, Gujarati: સફિયા શાહ), now Safia Thomas (born 16 November 1966 in London) is a British writer, editor and television news producer, following in the footsteps of her distinguished Anglo-Afghan Indian family.
She and her husband Ian also founded and ran a respected traditional delicatessen A. Gold in London, specializing in entirely British fare, painstakingly renovating the historic building in the process. They ran this business for several years before moving to live close to Casablanca in Morocco.
Safia Nafisa Shah is the daughter of the well-known author and teacher in the Sufi mystical tradition, Idries Shah; the twin sister of writer, journalist and documentary maker, Tahir Shah, and the younger sister of the writer, reporter and documentary filmmaker, Saira Shah. Her mother is of Indian Parsi ethnicity.
Educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, England, Shah went on to study at the Sorbonne and University of Grenoble in France. She has worked for the London-based Institute for Cultural Research as a research assistant and editor and worked with Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, as well as reporting on social issues there. She is also a freelance writer and has edited for the Institute of Health Sciences.
Safia Shah's sister, Saira Shah, worked with Safia's future husband, Ian Thomas, and the couple met through her and eventually married at Marylebone Road register office in London. Safia Shah and Ian Thomas have both worked for the American news agency, Associated Press Television, as journalists and producers.
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