Hasina on the shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto, November 2025 Hasina Akbari is a young Afghan woman, mentioned in the final pages of my memoir, My University of the World: Adventures of an International Film and Media Maker . She contacted me in November 2021, after the Taliban had taken control again in her country. She’s an example of resilience in the face of difficult circumstances—something needed by all of us who cherish human rights and freedom today, given the political

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My University of the World: Adventures of an International Film and Media Maker is the 2025 Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award...