page_title: Safia Shah
hierarchical_section_title: Safia Shah
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of the journalist and writer, Safia Shah.
context_page_description: Safia Nafisa Shah, now Safia Thomas, is a British writer, editor, television news producer and member of the Afghan-Parsi Shah 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.
context_section_description: Safia Nafisa Shah (Persian: سفیا شاه‎, Gujarati: સફિયા શાહ; born 16 November 1966), now Safia Thomas, is a British writer, editor, television news producer and member of the Afghan-Parsi Shah 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.
caption: Safia Shah
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