Sana Safi
Sana Safi ثنا ساپۍ | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1989 (age 36–37) Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Occupations | Journalist, News Presenter, Writer |
| Employer | BBC |
| Television | BBC Pashto |
Sana Safi (Pashto: ثنا ساپۍ – born 1989) is an Afghan broadcast journalist, currently working for BBC World Service
Early life
[edit]Sana Safi was born in Kabul and brought up in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and elsewhere in Afghanistan.[1] Safi left Afghanistan in 2007 and by 2014 was living in the United Kingdom.[2] She is fluent in Pashto, Dari, and English.
Career
[edit]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,[3] made up of local, regional, and international news.[4] 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.[5]
Alongside Safi's journalistic work, she writes fiction.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "It's not easy being a Pashtun woman in the media". PakTribune. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
"Working as a Pashtun female is not easy in any field," said one of my Pashtun journalist friends, Sana Safi.
- ↑ "Emotional return to a changing Afghanistan". BBC Afghan Service. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
On a cold November morning in 2007, I had kissed my family goodbye and left for Kabul airport – destination: London.
- ↑ News, News on. "BBC to Air Live TV News Bulletin in Pashto – News on News". newsonnews.com. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "BBC Pashto on TV now- multimedia". BBC Pashto.
- ↑ "Afghanistan first lady Rula Ghani moves into the limelight". BBC World News. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
External links
[edit]- Sana Safi's Short Stories published in this widely read Afghan Website (non-English)
- BBC Website which contains Sana's work (non-English)
- Founder SAFI Dot Tech Software Company (non-English)
- Official Blog(non-English)
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Afghan television journalists
- Afghan women television journalists
- Afghan television presenters
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
- British women television journalists
- BBC World News
- BBC World Service people
- 21st-century British women writers
- Afghan women short story writers
- Afghan short story writers
- Pashtun women writers
- 21st-century short story writers
- 20th-century Afghan women writers
- 20th-century Afghan writers
- British women radio presenters
- British women television presenters
- Afghan women television presenters
- British women radio journalists
- Afghan women radio journalists
- Afghan radio journalists
- Pashtun journalists