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Born and raised in Karachi, Sharmeen moved to the United States for higher education at Smith College and then postgraduate study at Stanford.!
Journalist and documentarian
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (born 1978), is an Emmy and Oscar award-winning Pakistani-Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Determined to make it into the field of journalism, Sharmeen, who wrote her first article for Dawn at age 14, began freelancing for American and Canadian.
She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010. She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. On 26 February 2012 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Oscar for her documentary film, Saving Face.
She has been lauded as Pakistan’s first Oscar winner by the press and government.
Early Life
Born in Karachi as Sharmeen Obaid, she was the first woman in her family to receive a Western education.
Sharmeen graduated from Smith College with a bachelor of arts in economics and government and then went to complete two master’s degrees from Stanford University in International Policy Studies and Communication. Obaid’s career in documentary filmmaking began when she examined the plight of Afghani refugee children in Pakistan for one of her articles.
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