The latest Fuuse documentary by Deeyah Khan premiered on ITV’s Exposure series last night. In the build up to the broadcast, the outspoken filmmaker and human rights activist has been featured in a number of high profile interviews. We’ve highlighted a few of these articles and videos below…
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From: www.ethnicnow.com Award-winning director Deeyah Khan, whose debut film Banaz won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, is now launching her next documentary JIHAD. The new film is an unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of jihadism and radicalisation, its causes and its possible solutions. In the making of the film, Deeyah has spent two years with some of the most influential and controversial figures in the British and Western jihadi…
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An inspiration to meet Flavia Pansieri and Margaret Sekaggya
More+Award-winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan, whose debut film Banaz: A Love Story won an Emmy and a Peabody, is in the final stages of completing her next documentary. Entitled JIHAD: a story of the others, the film is an unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of Islamic radicalism, its causes and its possible solutions. In the making of the film, Deeyah has spent 18 months with some of the most influential and…
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Documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah through Fuuse Films about the so called honour killing of Banaz Mahmod wins the 2013 Emmy for Best International Documentary Film.
More+Documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah through Fuuse Films about the so called honour killing of Banaz Mahmod receives the 2013 Peabody Award. For more info about the film visit: http://fuuse.net/banaz-a-love-story/
More+Banaz film directed by Deeyah and produced by Fuuse Films receives the 2013 Royal Television Society (RTS) Journalism Award Nomination for UK Home Current Affairs documentary film.
More+A reversioned edit of Banaz A Love Story will be Broadcast on ITV1 in the UK this Wednesday (October 31st) at 10.35pm.
Preview the trailer here
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Legendary guitarist John McLaughlin meets with Norwegian music producer, Deeyah.
On his official website he has written a blog in support of the album and artists on “Listen To The Banned”.
More+Deeyah presents NORDIC WOMAN Nordic Woman is a compilation album created by Norwegian-Pakistani/Afghan music producer and activist Deeyah featuring female artists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland who draw their inspiration from the various and distinctive styles of traditional Nordic music. Women’s Voices Nordic Woman is the first music collection in an ongoing WOMAN series dedicated to celebrating women’s voices and musical heritage from around the world. Each album,…
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Conceived and founded in collaboration with Joanne Payton of Cardiff University, Deeyah launches HBVA in February 2012.
HBVA (Honour Based Violence Awareness network) is an international digital resource centre working to advance understanding and awareness of Honour Killings and Honour Based Violence through research, training and information for professionals; teachers, health workers, social services, police, politicians, and others who may encounter individuals at risk.
More+Deeyah, Annie Lennox, Tori Amos, Tim McGraw and Christina Aguilera are among The Pixel Project’s 2012 list of 10 Music Artistes Who Support The Cause To End Violence Against Women.
You can view the complete list here
More+One of India’s leading national newspapers, “The Hindu Times” published an article about Memini the digital initiative founded by Deeyah in remembrance of victims of honour killings worldwide.
You can read the full article here: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article2863615.ece
More+My teacher, my ustad, my guru Sarangi maestro and classical singer Ustad Sultan Khan has passed away. This is a tremendous and sad loss for me personally, for the world and for music. A great force of nature, force of music has left us. There was no one like him and there will be no one like him again. His mastery of his remarkable instrument and his serene depth of…
More+Music star Deeyah speaks pride and multiculturalism in Norway. By: Eva Fernández Ortiz – WNN Features http://womennewsnetwork.net/2011/11/14/deeyah-pride-multiculturalism-norway/ (WNN) Oslo, NORWAY: As Norway’s 32-year-old right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik looked out at a Norwegian public courtroom in Oslo, Tuesday, November 14, 2011, he made a formal statement before the court in an attempt to place himself at the head of a “resistance movement” against immigrants and multiculturalism in Norway. In…
More+Deeyah BBC Interview July 2011
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