Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (born 1978) is an internationally renowned Emmy and Oscar award winning Pakistani journalist and documentarian. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010.[1][2] She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.[2] .[3] On 26 February 2012 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Oscar for her documentary Saving Face. She is the first Pakistani to win the prestigious award.[4]
Early lifeSharmeen Obaid was born in Karachi to an Urdu speaking family, and attended the Karachi Grammar School.[5] 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...