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The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Independent filmmaker Sabiha Sumar and Mallika Dutt from Breakthrough discuss women’s rights and filmmaking in Pakistan. Ms. Sumar's film "Silent Waters" looks at fundamentalism and Islamic nationalism in Pakistan in 1979, and is screening at the 3rd Annual South Asian Human Rights Film Festival.

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Events:
Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
Friday, April 8, 6:30 p.m
Venue : Asia Society New York
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
(director will be there for discussion)

Music: Soundtrack to Heat and Dust, music by Richard Robbins: "Qawali at the Shrine of Baba Firdaus"

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