Career
Her film, Outlawed in Pakistan, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and was called "among the standouts" of Sundance by The Los Angeles Times. Nosheen"s 2012 radio documentary, What Happened at Dos Erres? aired on This American Life and was called "a masterpiece of storytelling" by The New Yorker. A longer version of the film aired on Public Broadcasting Service FRONTLINE. Nosheen was born in Lahore, Pakistan.
Her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she was nine.
She received her master"s degree from Columbia University"s Graduate School of Journalism and a master"s degree from York University, Toronto in Women"s Studies. She obtained a bachelor"s degree from University of Toronto.
She is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. Nosheen"s reporting has appeared in various news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Glamour, British Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and This American Life.
. Nosheen"s documentaries have been supported by The Fund for Investigative Journalism, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Nation Institute"s Investigative Fund and ITVS. She also currently teaches journalism at Columbia University"s Graduate School of Journalism.
