Children Taught to be Suicide Bombers: Cnn.com
June 15, 2010
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s article on children being taught to become suicide bombers was profiled on cnn.com
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Educational initiative
June 15, 2010
Since 2007 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has been working with The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, a not for profit in Pakistan educating school students in low income areas and the greater public about issues of identity, history, religious tolerance, through the use of oral history, photographs, discussions and interactive video clips. An extensive three year program will be launched in low income schools this September. To find out how you can get involved email: citizensarchive@gmail.com
The organization is also working towards building Pakistan’s first Living History Museum in Karachi, which will be free to the greater public. The Museum, the first of its kind in Pakistan, will be a place of creativity. The Museum is an attempt to educate the masses about Pakistan’s secular past and the peaceful and progressive vision of its founders. Through exhibits the organization hopes to encourage children and adults to learn, explore and play in an atmosphere that ignites their curiosity, enriches their imagination, develops critical thinking and creates lasting memories of their history.
Children of the Taliban/Pakistan’s Taliban Generation
June 15, 2010
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s film Children of the Taliban/Pakistan’s Taliban Generation will be screened at festivals in Asia later this year. Stay tuned for updates
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy shortlisted for the Livingston Award
June 14, 2010
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has been shortlisted for the Livingston Award in the International Category for her film “Children of the Taliban”. Sharmeen was a the first non American recipient of the award in 2005.
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s talk at TED gets released
June 14, 2010
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s talk at the TED Conference in Long Beach gets released on TED.COM
Nokia hosts Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy live on Twitter at TED
February 10, 2010
On Wednesday February 10th at 4:00 p.m. PST, Nokia will host the filmmaker for live a Question and Answer session at TED Global in Long Beach, CA. Questions can be sent in at http://www.nokiaatted2010.com/debate.php
Asia Society 21 selects Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy as a fellow for 2010
February 7, 2010
The Asia 21 Young Leaders Forum revolves around the Asia 21 Fellows, a core network of leaders among leaders from diverse professional backgrounds, who are tasked to serve one-year terms. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy was selected from Pakistan.
TED names Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy as a fellow for its Long Beach Conference
February 7, 2010
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy will be attended the TED conference in Long Beach California and will be speaking on the Ted U Stage.
Pakistan’s Taliban Generation is shortlisted for an RTS Award
February 7, 2010
Pakistan’s Taliban Generation has been shortlisted for a Royal Television Society Journalism Award in the Current Affairs International category. The ceremony will be held on February 24th in London.
Children of the Taliban wins the Alfred Dupont Award at Columbia University
January 22, 2010
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2010 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Pakistani journalist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Director Dan Edge were honored this year.
Selected by the duPont Jury for excellence in broadcast journalism, the award-winning news programs aired in the United States between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. These honorees were presented with silver duPont batons at a ceremony held at Columbia University in New York City on Thursday, January 21, 2010.
* WGBH, Boston, FRONTLINE/World, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge
PAKISTAN: Children of the Taliban, on PBS
“This fresh and startling report takes viewers inside the daunting daily lives of children in Pakistan who will influence the destiny of that region and potentially of the world. Dan Edge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy penetrated areas we seldom see to bring out the voices of young people caught in the turmoil between the rising militant insurgents and the army. In the turbulent Swat Valley, a mortar falls nearby while young girls give reporter Obaid-Chinoy a tour of their school that had been shut down by the Taliban. The team embedded with the Pakistani military, and a Taliban recruiter explained to them how he lures children to be suicide bombers. This impressive report is a dispassionate eyewitness account of Pakistan today, and part of a new wave of video reporting from the frontlines.
For 40 years, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards have recognized excellence in broadcast journalism at Columbia University. Created by Jessie Ball duPont in 1942 as a tribute to the journalistic integrity and public-mindedness of her husband, Alfred I. duPont, these awards are regarded today as the most prestigious prizes in broadcast news, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, which are also administered at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards receive gold or silver batons designed by the late American architect Louis I. Kahn. The batons are inscribed with the famous observation about the power of television by the late Edward R. Murrow:
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.” (Address to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Chicago, October 15, 1958.)
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Dan Edge at the Dupont Awards at Columbia University