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Safia Shah ((ペルシア語:سفیا شاه), (グジャラート語: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. ==Early life and work== 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.〔(Biographical detail from Amazon ) Retrieved on 2008-11-14.〕〔For further biography, see: ''The World's Who's Who of Women'', 1993, under Safia Shah.〕 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.〔(Seven brides for seven lovers ), Life and Style, ''The Guardian'', 6 August 1999. Retrieved on 2008-11-15.〕 Safia Shah and Ian Thomas have both worked for the American news agency, Associated Press Television, as journalists and producers.〔(The homes from home that pay their way ), ''The Independent'', 8 February 2003. Retrieved on 2008-11-14.〕〔(British deli-cious ), ''The Independent'', 1 May 2005. Retrieved on 2008-11-14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Safia Shah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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