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Zainab Sultan
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Racial Injustice, Gun Violence, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Asian
- Self identification:
- Female
Bio
Zainab Sultan is an award-winning journalist and a documentary filmmaker. She was raised in Saudi Arabia and spent several years working as a journalist in Doha, Qatar where she developed a passion for storytelling. She is also on the steering committee of Bitchitra Collective: Indian women in Documentary, an organization advocating for the collective rights of women and non-binary filmmakers of Indian origin in US and India. Her work has been featured in Columbia Journalism Review, Al Jazeera English, U.S. News, Deutsche Welle, Mic, The Hindu, TRT World and others. Her short, Worthy of Love, won a Goldziher award. She is a graduate of the documentary program at Columbia University and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two kids.
