External links
- Sana Safi's Short Stories published in this widely read Afghan Website (non-English)
- BBC Website which contains Sana's work[link removed] (non-English)
- Founder SAFI Dot Tech Software Company (non-English)
- Official Blog(non-English)
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
Sana Safi was born in Kabul and brought up in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and elsewhere in Afghanistan. Safi left Afghanistan in 2007 and by 2014 was living in the United Kingdom. She is fluent in Pashto, Dari, and English.
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, made up of local, regional, and international news. 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.
Alongside Safi's journalistic work, she writes fiction.[citation needed]
"Working as a Pashtun female is not easy in any field," said one of my Pashtun journalist friends, Sana Safi.
On a cold November morning in 2007, I had kissed my family goodbye and left for Kabul airport – destination: London.
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