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	, Storyteller's Daughter, Storyteller's Daughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul.
		Saira discovering her extended family, discovering a world of gorgeous family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, finding at last the (now war-ravaged) family seat, discovering at last what she wants and what she rejects of her compelling heritage.
		When Shah writes about the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in 1986, she notes that the U.S. wanted to see the conflict as a fight of democracy against Communism and failed to see that its "allies" were fighting a war between "extremist political Islam" and Afghanistan's "outdated traditional society," and the U.S. was funding the extremists.
	node2234.bookshop.com.ru /2/2234/item/B00065HTXA.htm (1110 words)

	Inside Afghanistan: Behind the veil
		Saira Shah, in Beneath the Veil (Channel 4), is the latest reporter with hidden cameras to enter Afghanistan to expose the repressiveness of its Islamic government.
		Shah, being half-Afghan and often dressing in robes that left only a letterbox slit for her eyes, had an advantage in being able to visit areas that would be impossible for a Westerner such as Langan.
		Shah talked to women who had become beggars because the Taleban government forbids them to work: their children starve or, if they are lucky, subsist on mouldy breadcrumbs.
	www.rawa.org /channel4.htm (1104 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Storyteller's Daughter
		Saira Shah grew up in Britain, but she was always told she came from somewhere else: a fairytale land of orchards and gardens, a place where even the water had magical qualities.
		Shah first visits Afghanistan in 1986 as a war correspondent at the remarkable age of 21 and later returns as the documentary producer of Beneath the Veil, an expos of life under the Taliban that predated the national interest in the embattled country.
		Saira Shah grew up in England hearing stories of her father's native Afghanistan as if it were the Garden of Eden.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2UMWE45PBH&endeca=1&isbn=0375415319&itm=30 (800 words)

	Online NewsHour: Algerian Violence-- October 21, 1997
		SAIRA SHAH: Bizarrely he appeared to suggest that the villagers played a part in their own deaths by not reporting the massacre in advance.
		SAIRA SHAH: Since the Islamic FIS party won elections in 1991, which were then annulled by the government on orders from the military, the two sides have waged a bitter arms struggle that has often descended into terror.
		SAIRA SHAH: Since the massacre the villagers have been given weapons with which to defend themselves but only on condition they form a government-supervised local defense unit known as Patriots to counter the militants.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/july-dec97/algeria_10-21.html (1023 words)

	Books : Storyteller's Daughter at Connected Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presided over for nine hundred years within sight of the minarets and lush gardens of Kabul and the snow-topped mountains of the Hindu Kush.
		Some footages of atrocities of taliban that were included in the documentry of Saira shah were filmed by members of RAWA which made the film a real success and resulted in its acceptance all over the world.
		Saira Shah, raised in Britain far from her ancestoral homeland, Afghanistan, attempts to rediscover the Afghanistan of her father's stories.
	metrotel.co.uk /cgi-local/amazon/cgapf.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0375415319&templates=millennium (619 words)

	Press Gazette - Journalism matters. Every week. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shah had travelled to her father's homeland near Kabul, disguising herself beneath a burqa to document the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban, the religious movement that took power over much of the country in 1996.
		Shah readily admits she is still grieving the loss of her friend, who she describes as "the greatest of his generation" and says the fact the film won a Bafta in April would have meant "a massive amount to him".
		Shah, who was born in London and brought up in Kent, has written a book, The Storyteller's Daughter, based on a trip she made to Afghanistan with "a template of stories" that she then tried to fit into reality.
	www.pressgazette.co.uk /article/090605/why_arent_journalists (2599 words)

	The New York Times: Premium Archive
		The author is the daughter of the late Idries Shah, the celebrated Sufi philosopher and storyteller; through him, she is descended from a long line of swaggering landowners and lords who trace their origins beyond and through the Prophet himself.
		Saira Shah was reared in Tunbridge Wells, long derided in England as a symbol of irascible gentility, almost comically as unlike an Afghan community as it's possible to imagine.
		Although Shah was reared in Islam, and although she had been taught to cherish an idealized vision of her ancestry, remaining true to her tribal self, she eventually understood that her allegiance was not to a country or a tribe but to ''a set of values'' that many Muslims simply would not recognize.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E7D9173EF935A15753C1A9659C8B63 (882 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		SAIRA SHAH, HER DIRECTOR KILLED IN GAZA STRIP: Well, I don't know whether I am a visual person actually because when I started writing this book it felt as though I'd come home as though writing was what I really ought to be doing.
		SHAH: And 13 seconds later there was a second shot and James was hit in the throat because he was wearing body armor and a helmet the throat was perhaps the only area apart from his head that would have actually killed him.
		SHAH: So, his family, you know, and I too, I go to sleep every night or go to bed every night at the moment lying awake wondering what was going through the mind of the soldier who shot James.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0310/04/lkl.00.html (6420 words)

	Idries Shah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Idris Shah.
		Idries Shah (born 1924 from Afghan Parents, died 1996) was an author and lyricist in the sufist tradition.
		One of them, Saira Shah reported on women's rights in Afghanistan with her documentary Beneath the Veil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idries_Shah (289 words)

	Making her way in 2 different worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is Saira Shah's account of a trek into a another way of life, another way of viewing the world.
		Usman, an uneducated guerilla fighter, tells Saira about trying to have a picnic with his girlfriend, only to be challenged to a duel by her male relatives.
		Saira reminds us that all people were made by the same creator, call him God or Allah, and that we all have stories that capture our imagination, whether with fairies or genies, flying carpets or seven-league boots.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/books/040516/daughter.shtml (528 words)

	JS Online: Reflections on a war-torn 'magical place'
		Shah's fantasies have a rich source: some 900 years of tales about her family's Afghan homeland as told by her father, the late scholar and writer Idries Shah.
		In Saira's first memory, she is a 3-year-old child in her native England, listening to her Afghan-born father's story about "a magical place, the fairy-tale landscape you enter in dreams," where "fountains fling droplets into mosaic pools," colored birds trill and the land blooms with roses and almonds, apricots and pomegranates.
		And it's not long, of course, before Shah hears other stories about the region: tales of wild, bloodthirsty horsemen for whom war is both a heady sport and a deadly serious vocation.
	www.jsonline.com /Enter/books/reviews/sep03/170896.asp (430 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Books
		Saira Shah struggles with both visions of her homeland in The Storyteller's Daughter, her beautifully related journey to enlightenment.
		When Shah reported that some of the commanders the United States were supplying with guns were selling them to Iran, America's insecurities over the situation were inflamed - and Shah was disturbed to discover that her journalistic endeavors were met with disdain from both her Eastern and Western cohorts.
		Shah's feature of their plight and others', Beneath the Veil, was filmed at considerable risk to her own life.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_2350357,00.html (887 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Lifting the veil on the human story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The death - or "grim headline" - is that of James Miller, Shahâs collaborator on the award-winning documentaries Beneath the Veil and Unholy War.
		On that fateful day, he and Shah were in Rafah, shooting a documentary about Palestinian children living in the fag end of the Gaza Strip close to the Egyptian border, where fighting with Israeli troops is at its most relentless.
		Shah feels it is important that Death in Gaza was completed.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=585392004 (1254 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Saira, I guess one of the most extraordinary stories we saw first in "Beneath The Veil" is the three little girls who lose their mother.
		SHAH: I have no idea whether the three young girls I'm looking for are where we left them in their village on the frontline, if they are alive or dead.
		Saira Shah, they have been driven from their jobs, their homes, universities, slowly beginning to come back to life.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0112/26/lkl.00.html (6512 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews : app3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is also the central theme of Saira Shah's The Storyteller's Daughter, her account of her travels in Afghanistan in search of her own and her family's past.
		Both Saira Shah and Asne Seierstad, whose The Bookseller of Kabul is based on similar experiences as a war correspondent, speak with particular loathing of its claustrophobia and the way it reduces the world outside to a grid of fl shadows.
		Like Saira Shah, Anse Seierstad has strong views about the appalling place of women in Afghan society, but her interest in the family and her skill at describing life inside the burqa are far stronger than her desire to preach.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article100480.ece (1169 words)

	The Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shah discusses the historical differences between the Islamic tradition in which she was raised and the teachings of the orthodox Muslim world [p.
		Saira Shah was born in Britain to an Afghan father and Indian mother.
		Her father, Idries Shah, was a well-known philosopher and writer of Sufi fables and her Scottish grandmother, Morag Murray Abdullah, wrote two lightly fictionalized memoirs about her marriage to the son of an Afghan chieftain.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400031478&view=rg (1345 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Saira Shah: Our woman in Kabul
		'We were just a hotchpotch,' says Shah, suggesting that this was why her father, a writer who died a few years ago, painted such a romantic picture of the pleasure gardens at Paghman, his family's town in the hills near Kabul.
		After graduating from university in London in 1986, having studied Persian and Arabic, Shah travelled to a country immersed in the long war against the Soviet Union, intent on experiencing first hand the country her father had described so vividly.
		Shah spent three years in Peshawar and the period was a coming of age in every respect.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1001565,00.html (1492 words)

	The Veil Has Lifted - [Sunday Herald]
		There's Jan Fishan Khan, lord of lands in India and Afghanistan in the 19th century; the redoubtable Bobo, Saira Shah's Scottish grandmother and namesake, whose memoirs were serialised in The Scotsman and who eloped at the age of 16 with the Afghan heir she called ÒChiefyÓ, having met himÊduringÊhisÊstudiesÊatÊEdinburgh University.
		Shah's father did his best to hide from her what was really going on.
		Saira Shah has seen a man being carried, alive, with an unexploded shell in his stomach.
	www.sundayherald.com /35205 (1810 words)

	[extropy-chat] The Storyteller's Daughter
		Shah was the most prolific publisher of Sufi literature before he died.
		From what I read in interviews with Saira Shah, she is similarly as courageous as her father, although she might not think of herself that way.
		In this interview: http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum133.html Author of The Storyteller's Daughter talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: November 19, 2003 © 2003 Robert Birnbaum Birnbaum introduces her: "Reporter and broadcaster Saira Shah was born in Britain of an Afghan father (though half Scottish), writer Idries Shah, and a British mother (though Indian).
	lists.extropy.org /pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-November/010888.html (2190 words)

	TeenSpeak - Issues - The Face Beneath the Veil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perhaps the passion to help these innocent victims was the driving force that allowed Saira Shah to put aside worry and fear as she risked her life to shed light on Afghanistan.
		It is for these reasons, Shah spent most of her journey as a documentary journalist undercover, blending in.
		Shah’s compelling courage was recently again tested as she reentered Afghanistan as the war was being waged around her.
	www.teenspeaknews.com /vol3/issue1/issues/face_beneath2.html (435 words)

	Salon.com Life \| "Beneath the Veil" redux
		Shah traveled through Afghanistan last year, often undercover and always in great danger, to film "Beneath the Veil." She got out only after a brush with authorities that nearly led to the confiscation of her film -- a hair-raising experience that makes her decision to go back last month even more amazing.
		But Shah did not hesitate, as she watched the terrorist attacks unfold on the news, to begin planning another trip to Afghanistan, specifically to record the impact of the escalating conflict on the country's inhabitants, already the victims of terrible suffering.
		Shah spoke to Salon about her heartbreaking experience trying to offer aid to the traumatized family, and about what their tale forebodes for Afghanistan's future.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2001/11/16/veil_two/print.html (2195 words)

	Books \| Our woman in Kabul
		Saira Shah's life and career were on a roll.
		Shah remembers feeling that she and Miller were now in a position 'to control our own destiny'.
		Shah wonders whether she will ever make documentaries again, talking of feeling 'cut off' without Miller.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4716028-99942,00.html (1473 words)

	CNN.com - Journalist Saira Shah: Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban - August 27, 2001
		SHAH: Well, the film is a story of a journey three of us made, me and two crew members, earlier in the year.
		SHAH: Yes, there is. I assume you're talking about the gory images in the film, and those are not the ones that stay with me. The thing I keep remembering from real life is three little girls we met in the village, whose mother has been shot.
		SHAH: I have been amazed when this film was shown in England, at the response of people, and how people wanted to help, be involved.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/08/24/shah (1552 words)

	Afghanistan
		In "Beneath the Veil," journalist Saira Shah traveled to Afghanistan to see the effects of the Taliban's rule on her father's homeland.
		Saira Shah's journey into the heart of Afghanistan reveals a country of desperate poverty, much of it brought about by the deliberate policies of its fundamentalist Islamic government, the Taliban.
		Women are deprived not only of education, medicine and freedom, but often of the very means of survival.Saira, the daughter of Afghan scholar Idries Shah, took a dangerous journey into the heart of her father's country.
	www.habluetzel.com /afghanistan.htm (192 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Saira Shah
		Saira Shah first visited Afghanistan at age twenty-one and worked there for three years as a freelance journalist, covering the guerilla war against the Soviet occupation.
		She was born in Britain of an Afghan family, the daughter of Idries Shah, a writer of Sufi fables.
		Ms Shah read at the Asia Society in New York on September 22, 2003, and was interviewed by AsiaSource shortly before her reading.
	www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/shah.cfm (3246 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Siara Shah is the journalist responsible for the documentaries 'Beneath The Veil' and 'The Unholy War' which were showed again and again in the waske of 9/11.
		Saira is the daughter of Idries Shah, a man who has set a great many people thinking, with his wonderful books, and also the grand-daughter of the redoubtable explorer and writer Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
		Saira Shah has covered a great many news stories in her career to date, Middle East, Kurdistan, Oil in Columbia, Algeria etc etc. I look forward to more.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0718145623 (813 words)

	Watermark Books & Cafe - Reviews
		A British journalist and the child of exiled Afghans, Shah was raised on her father’s stories of lush orchards, flinty warriors, and the luminous beauty of purple mountains.
		Shah takes readers with her as she slips past soldiers to film the squalor of Afghanistan’s neglected women’s hospitals.
		Saira Shah is an excellent guide: Like her father, she's a storyteller of remarkable power.
	www.watermarkbooks.com /review1204-009.html (385 words)

	Saira Shah Crowned Television Journalist of the Year \| Latest News \| Pozitiv
		Already an established and skilled journalist, she was looking for specific coaching to develop her on-screen "warmth" and "viewer connection" when dealing with such an emotive subject.
		In this instance, the judges felt that the work of Saira showed bravery, insight and humanity alongside journalistic skills of the highest order.
		Saira travelled secretly, often within just a few hundred yards of Taliban troops, and literally risked her life to tell a story that the world needed to see and hear.
	www.pozitiv.com /news_SairaShah_01-03-02.htm (248 words)

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