Saira Shah was born on 5 October 1964 and is a British author, reporter and documentary filmmaker.
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Saira Shah was educated at Bryanston School and read Arabic and Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, graduating in 1986.
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Saira Shah's father was Idries Shah, an Indian-Afghan and half-Scottish writer of books on Sufism.
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The author Tahir Saira Shah is her brother and she has a sister, Tahir's twin, Safia Saira Shah.
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Saira Shah worked for 3 years in Peshawar as a reporter covering the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Saira Shah has worked as a journalist for Channel 4 News, which she left in 2001.
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Saira Shah married and divorced a Swiss reporter, whom she met in Peshawar.
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Saira Shah worked with James Miller on several projects including the films Beneath the Veil, Unholy War, both Channel 4 Dispatches films for the UK documentary company Hardcash productions, and Death in Gaza, for their own TV company Frostbite Films.
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In 2004, Saira Shah won a Current Affairs BAFTA Award for Death in Gaza and in 2005 the film won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming and Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking.
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Saira Shah appeared on the television programme Breakfast with Frost on 10 August 2003.