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Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a Pakistani American filmmaker and author. She is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home, which was published by the Penguin Press in 2008. [1]
Sadia Shepard is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press, 2008). Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Times of India, Wall Street Journal Magazine and The New York Times. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer, documentary filmmaker and video essayist. The author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press), Shepard’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Story Magazine, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other publications.
Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan, was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago.
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Jun 30, 2009 · Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan, was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago.
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The Girl from Foreign weaves stories of author Sadia Shepard’s cross-cultural childhood with tales from her two-year journey to India to uncover the disparate influences which have shaped her family.
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and video essayist. Her research and teaching focus on observational documentary filmmaking, short films, film adaptation, autobiographical storytelling, and videographic criticism.
