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Deeyah Khan

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Deeyah Khan (دیا خان,, born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian British film director and human rights defender of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. [1]

82 relations: Adil Khan, Amnesty International, Andy Summers, Anne Brown, Arts Council Norway, Bade Fateh Ali Khan, Banaz: A Love Story, Belarus Free Theatre, Bergen International Film Festival, Bob James (musician), British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cardiff University, Cont Mhlanga, Daily Mirror, David McCullough, Digital media, Documentary film, Emerson College, Emmy Award, Europe, Far-right politics, Film director, Ford Foundation, Freedom of speech, Freedom to Create Prize, Fuuse, Golden Nymph Award, Goodwill ambassador, Grierson Awards, Gunnar Sønsteby, Hindustani classical music, Honor killing, HuffPost, Human rights, International Day of the Girl Child, Islam's Non-Believers, ITV (TV network), Jay Leno, Jihad: A Story of the Others, Listen to the Banned, Memini, Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Music of Pakistan, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Nils Petter Molvær, Nordic Woman, Norway, Norwegians, NRK, ..., Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Ossietzky Award, Pashtuns, Peabody Award, PeaceJam, Peer Gynt Prize, PEN International, Plan International, Prime time, Punjabis, Raindance Film Festival, Robin Roberts (newscaster), Royal Television Society, Sister-hood, Sultan Khan (musician), Sunni Islam, TED (conference), Telenor Culture Award, The Guardian, The Police, The Times, Third culture kid, UK Singles Chart, UNESCO, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, United Kingdom, University of Oslo’s Human Rights Award, Verdens Gang, White Right: Meeting the Enemy, World music, Young Global Leaders. Expand index (32 more) »

Adil Khan

Adil Khan (عادل خان,; born 3 February 1983 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian dancer and actor of mixed Punjabi/Pashtun descent.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Andy Summers

Andrew James Somers (born 31 December 1942), known professionally as Andy Summers, is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band The Police.

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Anne Brown

Anne Brown (August 9, 1912March 13, 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess in 1935.

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Arts Council Norway

The Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd, often shortened to Kulturrådet) is the official arts council for Norway.

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Bade Fateh Ali Khan

Ustad Bare Fateh Ali Khan (اُستاد بڑے فتح علی خان), (1935 – 4 January 2017) was amongst the foremost Khyal vocalists in Pakistan, and a leading exponent of the Patiala Gharana (stylistic lineage).

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Banaz: A Love Story

Banaz: A Love Story is a 2012 documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah Khan.

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Belarus Free Theatre

Belarus Free Theatre is a Belarusian underground theatre group.

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Bergen International Film Festival

The Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) is a film festival held annually in October in Bergen, Norway since 2000, and is the largest film festival in the nation in number of films.

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Bob James (musician)

Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Cont Mhlanga

Cont Mdladla Mhlanga is a Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.

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Digital media

Digital media are any media that are encoded in machine-readable formats.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Emerson College

Emerson College is a private college in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of more extreme nationalist, and nativist ideologies, as well as authoritarian tendencies.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.

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Freedom to Create Prize

The Freedom to Create Prize was established in 2008 to foster prosperity in the developing world by investing in the creative foundations of society.

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Fuuse

Fuuse is an independent music, arts and film production company founded by Norwegian artist, (film and music maker) Deeyah Khan.

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Golden Nymph Award

The Golden Nymph Award are the prizes awarded to the winners of the Official Competition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival (Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo).

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Goodwill ambassador

A goodwill ambassador is a person who advocates for a specific cause (e.g. a country or an organisation) on the basis of their notability.

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Grierson Awards

The Grierson Awards celebrate innovative and exciting new documentary films.

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Gunnar Sønsteby

Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO (1918 – 10 May 2012) was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II.

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Hindustani classical music

Hindustani classical music is the traditional music of northern areas of the Indian subcontinent, including the modern states of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Honor killing

An honor killing or shame killing is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having sex outside marriage, becoming the victim of rape, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations or renouncing a faith.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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International Day of the Girl Child

Notice International Day of Girls is an international observance day declared by the United Nations; it is also called the Day of Girls and the International Day of Girls.

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Islam's Non-Believers

Islam’s Non-Believers is a 2016 documentary produced by Fuuse Films, and filmed and directed by Emmy-winning and Bafta-nominated filmmaker Deeyah Khan.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host.

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Jihad: A Story of the Others

JIHAD: a story of the others is a 2015 BAFTA and Grierson nominated documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan.

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Listen to the Banned

Listen to the Banned is a compilation album that features the music of banned, censored and imprisoned artists from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

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Memini

Memini is a global digital initiative driven entirely by volunteers internationally to promote remembrance of victims of honour killings worldwide.

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Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo is an international festival and competition focusing on productions for television, founded 1961 and based in Monaco.

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Music of Pakistan

The Music of Pakistan (پاکستان کی موسیقی) includes diverse elements ranging from music from various parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and modern-day Western popular music influences.

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New York International Independent Film and Video Festival

The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival was a film, music and art series of events at various American cities, founded in 1993.

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Nils Petter Molvær

Nils Petter Molvær also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer.

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Nordic Woman

Nordic Woman is a compilation album that features traditional music forms performed by well known women artists in Nordic countries.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (nordmenn) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway.

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NRK

NRK (an abbreviation of the Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS, generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål

Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål (Oslo universitetssykehus, Ullevål), formerly Ullevål University Hospital (Ullevål universitetssykehus) in Oslo, Norway is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital.

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Ossietzky Award

The Ossietzky Award (Ossietzkyprisen) is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech.

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Pashtuns

The Pashtuns (or; پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (افغان, Afğān) and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān), are an Iranic ethnic group who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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PeaceJam

The PeaceJam Foundation is an international organization whose mission statement is "to create young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities, and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates who pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody." The PeaceJam program was launched in February 1996 by co-founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff to provide the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with a programmatic vehicle to use in working together to teach youth the art of peace.

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Peer Gynt Prize

The Peer Gynt Prize or the Peer Gynt Award (Årets Peer Gynt or Per Gynt-prisen) is a private Norwegian prize presented annually by the private commercial company Peer Gynt AS during the Peer Gynt Festival, also organised by the same company.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation which works in 71 countries across the world, in Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children’s rights and equality for girls.

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Prime time

The prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming.

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Punjabis

The Punjabis (Punjabi:, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), or Punjabi people, are an ethnic group associated with the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, who speak Punjabi, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.

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Raindance Film Festival

Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates throughout major cities including: London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin and Brussels.

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Robin Roberts (newscaster)

Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster.

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Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future.

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Sister-hood

sister-hood is an international platform for the voices of women of Muslim heritage founded in 2007 by Norwegian, film-maker and human rights activist Deeyah Khan through her media and arts production company Fuuse.

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Sultan Khan (musician)

Ustad Sultan Khan (15 April 1940 – 27 November 2011) was an Indian sarangi player and Classical vocalist belonging to Sikar Gharana.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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Telenor Culture Award

Telenor Culture Prize, titled ‘Boundless Communication’, is given annually to performing artists or organizations that have made an extraordinary contribution within culture in Scandinavia, but who also are established internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Third culture kid

Third culture kid (TCK) refers individuals whose raised in a culture other than their parents' or the culture of the country named on their passport (where they are legally considered native) for a significant part of their early development years.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO (not diplomatic ambassadors) who use their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals, especially attracting media attention.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Oslo’s Human Rights Award

University of Oslo's Human Rights Award is an award which is awarded by the University of Oslo to individuals who have made important contributions in different fields.

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Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang ("The course of the world"), generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a foreign-owned Norwegian tabloid newspaper.

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White Right: Meeting the Enemy

White Right: Meeting The Enemy is a 2017 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director Deeyah Khan.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Young Global Leaders

The Young Global Leaders, or Forum of Young Global Leaders, is an independent non-profit organization managed from Geneva, Switzerland, under the supervision of the Swiss government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeyah_Khan

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