Nur Ibrahim Nasreen
Nur Ibrahim Nasreen is a Pakistani fiction writer, television producer and broadcast journalist, currently based in the United States. She is best known for producing the Peabody award-winning television series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.
Background[edit]
Nur was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan.[1] She attended the Lahore Grammar School.[2] After completing her A levels, she moved to the United States in 2009.
Education[edit]
Nasreen has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Harvard University.[1][2] She was a contributor to The Harvard Crimson[3] and The Harvard Political Review[4], a magazine on politics and public policy. She also holds a Master's degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.[5]
Career[edit]
In 2013, Ibrahim joined the Al Jazeera media network as a research fellow.[2] Soon, she became an associate producer and continued to work with the network till 2017.[2] During this time, she contributed to the Al Jazeera English show The Stream.[6] In September 2017, she moved to New York and joined The Opposition with Jordan Klepper as a segment producer.[1]
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj[edit]
After Klepper's show ended, Nasreen became a news producer for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, a political satire show, in 2018. She worked on the Saudi Arabia episode, which made national headlines and was pulled off the air by Netflix for criticising the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad Bin Salman.[6] [7]Nasreen was involved in a total of 32 episodes on Patriot Act.[8]
On August 21, 2020, after the cancellation of Patriot Act, Nasreen revealed that working on the series had caused her "mental anguish." She tweeted that she was "humiliated and gaslit, targeted and ignored" over the course of her work on the show.[9][10][11] Other female producers on the show like Amy Zhang and Sheila V Kumar corroborated Nasreen's claims and said that Patriot Act had a toxic working environment that disproportionately affected women of colour.[12]
Writing[edit]
Nasreen writes fiction and is a two-time finalist for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction.[13] Her works have been published in collections like Platypus Press[14] and Barrelhouse.[15] She has also written for The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction from Hachette India.[16]
Nur's reviews and literary essays have appeared in Catapult[17], The Millions[18], Salmagundi Magazine[19], the Juggernaut[20] and Collapsar[21] among other publications.
Currently, she is a reporter for Snopes, a fact-checking website.[22]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wahid, Mehwish A. (2019-02-25). "Nur Ibrahim: women representation for Pakistan in Hollywood". HIP. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Nur Ibrahim - LinkedIn". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Nur Nasreen Ibrahim | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Nur Ibrahim - Harvard Political Review (author's page)". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Nur Ibrahim: Representing Pakistan from 'The Stream' to Hasan Minhaj's 'Patriot Act'". www.geo.tv. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ CNN, James Griffiths and Euan McKirdy. "Netflix pulls 'Patriot Act' episode in Saudi Arabia after it criticized official account of Khashoggi killing". CNN. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (TV Series 2018–2020) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-11-13
- ↑ Staff, Images (2020-08-25). "Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act accused of being a toxic workplace for women of colour". Images. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Nur Nasreen recalls being 'humiliated, gaslit, targeted' during time in 'Patriot Act'". The Express Tribune. 2020-08-22. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act Producer Says She was 'Humiliated, Gaslit, Targeted' During Show". News18. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "After Nur, more women recall toxic working experience at 'Patriot Act'". The Express Tribune. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Salam Award - Team". The Salam Award. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Against the Dust, by Nur Nasreen Ibrahim". Platypus Press. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "The Death of a Glacier". BARRELHOUSE. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Transnational Sci Fi: A Border-Crossing, Otherworldly Reading & Discussion". Asian American Writers' Workshop. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Catapult | Nur-Nasreen-Ibrahim". Catapult. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, Author at The Millions". The Millions. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Nur Nasreen Ibrahim". Salmagundi Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "The Juggernaut". The Juggernaut. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ ""The Outsider Who Wrote for Outsiders," by Nur Nasreen Ibrahim". The Collapsar. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ↑ "Nur Ibrahim, Author at Snopes.com". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
External links[edit]
- Twitter https://twitter.com/nuri_ibrahim?lang=en
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nur-ibrahim-50721b50
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