Deeyah
| Deeyah Khan دیا خان |
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| Born |
August 7, 1977 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation |
Film director Music producer CEO of Fuuse |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Known for | Banaz a Love Story |
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| Website | www |
Deeyah Khan (Urdu: دیا خان, pronounced [d̪iːaːˈxaːn], born 7 August 1977 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian film director, music producer, composer and human rights defender of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. She is an outspoken supporter of women's rights, freedom of expression and peace.
She is the founder and CEO of production company Fuuse. Her debut film as director and producer, Banaz A Love Story (2012), won a Peabody Award (2013) and won the 2013 Emmy Award for Best International Documentary Film and British Royal Television Society nomination for Best Current Affairs Documentary. In 2015 she made a film where she sets out to find out why the jihadi message has such an alluring hold on young Westerners. In Jihad: A Story of the Others, Deeyah meets one of the godfathers of the British jihad, who went abroad to fight, and who preached extremism to thousands of young Muslims across the UK and the West.
She is the founder and producer of World Woman, an annual international festival of art and activism in Oslo.
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