Anisa Mehdi
Anisa Marie Mehdi is a film director and journalist. She is of half Iraqi and half Canadian descent.[1]
Her main focus when producing documentaries or programmes lie within religion, as her most notable documentary was Inside Mecca, which was produced by National Geographic. Many of her works have appeared on PBS, ABC News, and CBS. Besides being a director and reporter, she is also founder and president of Whetstone Productions, and is Professor of Communications at Seton Hall University.
Anisa is reported to be the first Canadian woman to cover the Hajj for broadcast in the United States. As executive producer of the PBS "Frontline" special Muslims, she received the 2002 Cine Golden Eagle Award.[2]
She is currently working on a project about young Muslim and Christian people in Algeria, working together to achieve peace. As well as producing more documentaries, she is also writing a biography on her father, Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, who is believed to be the first Arab American activist in the United States.[1] In 2007, Mehdi and two other writers launched the Arab Writers Group Syndicate.[3]
In February 2016, she joined the editorial board of the intelligence company Stratfor.[4]
She currently lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.[5]
Filmography
- Inside Mecca (2003)
- Muslims (2002)
- Frontline (2002)
- Muslims
References
- ^ a b "Anisa: In Profile". weekly.ahram.org.eg. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
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- ^ Dave Astor (2007-09-04). "Arab Writers Group Syndicate Is Launched". Editor and Publisher.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ 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. "Subsequently they had three daughters, Anisa, who now lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, Janan Chandler of Mississauga, Ontario, and Laila Hilfinger of Seattle."
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- Living people
- Canadian expatriate film directors 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
- Women television producers
- Canadian women television journalists
- Iraqi women journalists
- 21st-century Iraqi women writers
- 21st-century Iraqi writers
- Film directors from New Jersey