Monthly Archives: February 2012
‘Saving Face’ Filmmaker on Shooting Documentaries in Pakistan
Last year, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a Pakistani filmmaker, won an International Emmy for “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation,” her documentary focusing on young Taliban recruits in the aftermath of Sept. 11. A new project of hers, in collaboration with Daniel Junge, is “Saving … Continue reading
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Tagged oscar, Pakistan, saving lives, sharmeen chinoy, short film
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Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 16, 2011 Aren’t Americans the good guys? Don’t they come to the aid of the poor and dislocated whenever there is a disaster in any part of the world? Americans, after all, saved millions of Muslims … Continue reading
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Tagged fault, fault lines, irfan, lines, Pakistan, washington
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Excerpt: Ahmed Rashid’s ‘Pakistan on the Brink’
Preface IN JANUARY 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first black president of the United States, hopes of Americans and Europeans were high that he would make a greater U.S. commitment to Afghanistan in terms of money, troops, … Continue reading
