Background
Shah was born in London and raised in Kent, England. Her father was Idries Shah, an Afghan writer of books on Sufism. Her mother is half-Parsee and half-English.
Shah was born in London and raised in Kent, England. Her father was Idries Shah, an Afghan writer of books on Sufism. Her mother is half-Parsee and half-English.
She was educated at Bryanston School and read Arabic and Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, graduating in 1986.
She produces, writes and narrates current affairs films. Participant of his family was originally from Paghman, Afghanistan. Her first trip to Afghanistan was when she was 21 years old.
She worked for 3 years in Peshawar as a reporter covering the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
She has also worked as a journalist for Channel 4 News, which she left in 2001. Shah worked with James Miller on several projects including the films (2001), (2001), both Channel 4 Dispatches films for the United Kingdom documentary company Hardcash productions, and (2004), for their own television company Frostbite.
Miller was killed in 2003. Shah also appeared on the television programme Breakfast with Frost on 10 August 2003.
Their daughter, who has cerebral palsy, was the inspiration for Shah"s semi-autobiographical debut novel, The Mouse-Proof Kitchen (2013).
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