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In the summer of 2004, we hosted a screening of Sharmeen's documentary "Reinventing the Taliban." Sharmeen has since graduated from Stanford's graduate school of journalism, and has ventured back into the thick of the Middle East. She's a correspondent for the New York Times and for PBS' "Frontline."

One of Sharmeen's most recent reports was a September 2004 "Frontline" story called "Pakistan: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden." Read it here: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/elections/pakistan/.

Sharmeen recently won 2 awards for her first documentary, "Terror's Children," which chronicled the lives of Afghan children in a Pakistani refugee camp in the months after 9/11:

• The American Women in Television & Radio award for Individual Achievement for Best Reporter
• The Overseas Press Club Award for best international reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition
  

Read about Sharmeen:

Sharmeen's website

Frontline interview with Sharmeen

Q&A with Sharmeen, by AsiaSource

Pakistani Filmmakers Come of Age, in The Milli Gazette

2004 AWRT Awards