Mehdi Rizvi is a former member of the Community Editorial Board, Toronto Star and an affiliate of the Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, which is a consortium of three Toronto universities. He is a chemist who has worked in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, cement and UV printing products for the last 35 years.
Pakistani-Canadian woman wins Oscar for documentary.
by Mehdi Rizvi
"All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams," said Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. "This is for you," she said, as she and her co-director Daniel Junge accepted the Oscar for best documentary in the short-film category. Saving Face, about acid attacks on women's faces became the first Oscar won by a Pakistani (a Canadian-Pakistani), in that country's sixty-four year history.
Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Sharmeen Obaid went on to earn two