Background

Zia Jaffrey was born in New York, United States, in the family of Madhur Jaffrey and Saeed Jaffrey. She spent part of her childhood in Delhi, India.

Education

Zia attended Barnard College, where she majored in English, and the Columbia University Graduate Writing Division for fiction.

Career

Zia Jaffrey developes her career as the author. She has written cover stories, features, and book reviews for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Elle, where she was a contributing editor. She has covered the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Pakistan, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the global AIDS epidemic, and is currently working on two books.

Achievements

• Zia Jaffrey is a famous author of a book "The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India", written in 1996.

Works

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  • Derniers eunuques (Les) 2001
  • Invisibles a Tale of the Eunuchs of Indi 1998
  • AIDS in South Africa 2010
  • THE INVISIBLES. A Tale of the Eunuchs of India. 1997

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Ms. Jaffrey is a sympathetic but hardheaded observer, not just of her subject but, sometimes more interestingly, of herself as well.

Connections

Father:

Saeed Jaffrey

Mother:

Madhur Bahadur Jaffrey

grandmother:

Hadia Imam Jaffrey

Grandfather:

Dr Hamid Hussain Jaffrey

grandmother:

Kashmiran Rani

Grandfather:

Dadaji Bahadur

Sister:

Sakina Jaffrey

Sister:

Meera Jaffrey

Cousin:

Rohit Jaggi

Cousin:

Maya Jaggi

nephew:

Cassius Kumar Wilkinson