Saira Shah on "The Storyteller's Daughter"

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Saira Shah’s father is Afghan, but she grew up in England. She became a journalist and went to Afghanistan to cover the mujahadin’s war against the Soviets. She later made an acclaimed documentary about the Taliban called “Under the Veil.” Now she’s written a memoir called “The Storyteller’s Daughter.”  Shah tells Jim Fleming how her father used stories to give her a sense of her ethnic cultural birthright and how those stories helped her when she worked in Afghanistan.