Deeyah Khan

Deeyah Khan is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary film director and producer best known for Banaz: A Love Story (2012), Jihad: A Story of the Others (2015) and White Right: Meeting the Enemy (2017). Born in Norway to immigrant parents of Pashtun and Punjabi ancestry, Deeyah's experience of living between different cultures, both the beauty and the challenges, shapes her artistic vision. Her 2012 multi-award winning documentary Banaz: A Love Story chronicles the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman murdered by her family in a so-called honour killing. Deeyah's second film, the Grierson and Bafta award-nominated Jihad, involved two years of interviews and filming with Islamic extremists, convicted terrorists and former jihadis. In her most recent Bafta-nominated film, White Right: Meeting the Enemy Deeyah sat down face-to-face with US neo-Nazis and white nationalists. In 2016, she became the first UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for artistic freedom and c