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
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
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.
See also
References
- ^ "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
- 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)