Anisa Mehdi
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Anisa Marie Mehdi is an Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 and obtained her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.[1]
She worked as an associate producer at CBS News in New York on the news magazine series West 57th.[1] Her most notable documentary was Inside Mecca, which she produced and directed for National Geographic television. As executive producer of the PBS Frontline special "Muslims", she received the 2002 Cine Golden Eagle Award.[2]
She is currently writing a biography on her father, Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, an Arab American activist in the United States.[3] In 2007, Mehdi and two other writers launched the now-defunct Arab Writers Group Syndicate.[4]
In February 2016, she joined the editorial board of the intelligence company Stratfor.[5] As of 1998, Mehdi lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.[6]
Anisa Mehdi is of half Iraqi and half Canadian descent.[3]
Filmography
[edit]- Inside Mecca (2003)
- Muslims (2002)
- Frontline (2002)
- Muslims
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ANISA MEHDI HAS WEDDING". The New York Times. 1985-08-18. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ New York Women in Film and Television
- ^ a b "Anisa: In Profile". weekly.ahram.org.eg. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Dave Astor (2007-09-04). "Arab Writers Group Syndicate Is Launched". Editor & Publisher. Archived from the original on 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ Stratfor (2015-02-15). "Award-Winning Journalist Anisa Mehdi Joins Stratfor Editorial Board". Marketwired.
- ^ Curtiss, Richard H. Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi (1928-1998), Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 1998. Accessed August 27, 2007.
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- Living people
- Canadian expatriates in the United States
- Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States
- Iraqi women film directors
- Canadian people of Iraqi descent
- Iraqi film directors
- Iraqi journalists
- Iraqi people of Canadian descent
- People from Maplewood, New Jersey
- Canadian Shia Muslims
- Seton Hall University faculty
- American Shia Muslims
- Iraqi Shia Muslims
- Canadian women film directors
- Canadian television producers
- Canadian women television producers
- Canadian women television journalists
- Iraqi women journalists
- 21st-century Iraqi women writers
- 21st-century Iraqi writers
- Film directors from New Jersey