Nazim Baksh Explained

Nazim Baksh
Nationality:Canadian
Known For:Award winning producer

Nazim Ahmed Baksh is a Canadian journalist and television producer.[1] He is noteworthy for producing the documentary Son of al Qaeda, about Canadian youth Abdurahman Khadr.[2]

In 2006 the University of Toronto invited Baksh to serve an eight-month fellowship in its Journalism program.[3]

Baksh, Linden MacIntyre and Neil Docherty won an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for a segment entitled The Mole that appeared on CBC News The National in 2007.[4] In 2011 Baksh and John Lancaster won a Canadian Association for Journalists award for "Death in a Community."[5]

Education

Education
York University
1991 University of Western Ontario

Career in Journalism

Baksh was hired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1990, following earning his Masters in Journalism, and has worked there, in one capacity or other, since.[6] His accomplishments there include:

  • Baksh was a founding producer, and long-time contributor to this weekly radio show on international issues.
  • Baksh was one of the producers of this profile of a Canadian youth who was captured in Afghanistan, served as a CIA informant, agreed to serve as a mole in Guantanamo.
Nuclear Jihad
Land, Gold and Women[7] [8]
  • Baksh was a consulting producer for this documentary about the traditional social control of women in rural Pakistan.
  • First broadcast as part of CBC's Doc Zone series on October 17, 2008.[9]

References

  1. News: Abdurahman Khadr: mischief or terror?. CBC Radio. Nazim Baksh. 2003-12-04. 2008-11-22.
  2. News: Correspondent's Notebook: Son Of Al Qaeda. Frontline (PBS). Nazim Baksh, Terrence McKenna. 2004-04-22. 2012-05-25. Over Christmas, our Arabic-speaking Muslim producer Nazim Baksh made contact with Abdurahman -- and within a week he had confided the real story to Naz. He told us that he had been working for the CIA since mid-2002 -- including all the time he had been in Guantanamo -- that the story he presented at the press conference was a cover story dictated to him by the agency..
  3. News: CONGRATULATIONS to winners of the Massey College University of Toronto's 2006-2007 Journalism Fellowships. University of Toronto. 2005. 2008-09-28.
  4. News: CAJ award winners announced. Newswire.ca. 2007-05-26. 2012-05-15. The winners in the OPEN TELEVISION (LESS THAN 5 MINUTES) category are: Linden MacIntyre, Neil Docherty, Nazim Baksh -- The Mole -- CBC News - The National.
  5. News: CBC wins 6 CAJ awards. CBC News. 2011-05-16. 2012-05-25.
  6. News: Sidi Nazim Baksh . IHYA. 2008-11-22.
  7. News: Land, Gold and Women. CBC News. 2006-03-05. 2008-11-22.
  8. News: Pakistan, land, gold, women. CBC News. 2006-02-28. 2008-11-22.
  9. News: The USA v. Omar Khadr. CBC News. 2008-10-17. 2012-05-25.

10. The Fifth Estate documentary “Black on campus” (watch it here), which aired on CBC on February 25, 2021.