Sana Safi

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|name = Sana Safi ثنا ساپۍ

|birth_date = 1989

|birth_place = Kabul, Afghanistan

|television = BBC Pashto

|employer = BBC

|occupation = Journalist, News Presenter, Writer

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|children =

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Sana Safi (Pashto: ثنا ساپۍ – born 1989) is an Afghan broadcast journalist, currently working for BBC World Service

Early life

Sana Safi was born in Kabul and brought up in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and elsewhere in Afghanistan.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/16046/its-not-easy-being-a-pashtun-woman-in-the-media/ |title=It's not easy being a Pashtun woman in the media |date=21 February 2013 |publisher=PakTribune |accessdate=10 October 2014 |quote="Working as a Pashtun female is not easy in any field," said one of my Pashtun journalist friends, Sana Safi.}} Safi left Afghanistan in 2007 and by 2014 was living in the United Kingdom.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29619583 |title=Emotional return to a changing Afghanistan |date=18 October 2014 |publisher=BBC Afghan Service |accessdate=18 October 2014 |quote=On a cold November morning in 2007, I had kissed my family goodbye and left for Kabul airport – destination: London.}} She is fluent in Pashto, Dari, and English.

Career

Safi lives in London where she works for the BBC. She started her career as a presenter/producer for a children's programme in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad before joining the BBC Afghan's Afghan Woman Hour programme and main current affairs transmissions later.

She is currently a presenter for BBC Pashto's TV show which is a half-hour show,{{Cite web|title = BBC to Air Live TV News Bulletin in Pashto – News on News|url = http://newsonnews.com/story/210116-2140|website = newsonnews.com|access-date = 2016-01-30|first = News on|last = News}} made up of local, regional, and international news.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pashto/multimedia/2014/01/000000_tv-on-demand.shtml |title=BBC Pashto on TV now- multimedia|publisher=BBC Pashto}} Safi was the first journalist to speak to Afghanistan's Lebanese-American First Lady Rula Ghani in her first broadcast interview, after her husband Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai took office.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29601045|title=Afghanistan first lady Rula Ghani moves into the limelight |date=15 October 2014 |publisher=BBC World News |accessdate=15 October 2014}}

Alongside Safi's journalistic work, she is known for writing fiction. She writes mainly short stories, widely published in her native country of Afghanistan. Her stories tell the tale of a young independent Muslim woman who knows all about the secrets of her country of origin and traditions and is also very much integrated into western society.

Safi tells the contrasting features of East and West and the similarities of human kind. Considering her background and upbringing, Safi does not shy away from some fundamental social issues in her stories. She has written about a wide range of topics, from sexual, and physical violence against women, to the dating, socializing and daily life of a young westerner.{{cite web|url=http://www.taand.com/archives/7991 |title=Short Story: Life and Death by Sana Safi -culture|publisher=Taand}}

References

External links

[http://www.taand.com/archives/13497 Sana Safi's Short Stories published in this widely read Afghan Website] (non-English)
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pashto/multimedia/ BBC Website which contains Sana's work] (non-English)
[http://azeemsafi.com/bio/ Founder SAFI Dot Tech Software Company] (non-English)
[http://sanasafi.blogspot.co.uk Official Blog](non-English)

Category:1989 births

Category:Living people

Category:Afghan television journalists

Category:Afghan women television journalists

Category:Afghan television presenters

Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists

Category:British women television journalists

Category:BBC World News

Category:BBC World Service people

Category:21st-century British women writers

Category:Afghan women short story writers

Category:Afghan short story writers