Mohsin in Malaysia(extended version)-Lollipops Crown Screenings/Presentations

* This project is ongoing and it needs your help. To fund this project for youth in other countries please look up Mohsin Din on facebook or email lollipopscrown@gmail.com

BIO:
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din double majored in International Political Economy and Middle Eastern Studies at Fordham University, class of 2007. His family emigrated from the embattled region of Kashmir in the mid 1970s. In 2003 He self-produced a photo human rights documentary in the war-torn valley of Kashmir, interviewing victims of human rights abuse and Kashmiri political leaders. From 2003-2005 Mohsin helped with the research for a published report on Kashmir for Human Rights Watch in 2006 and he currently conducts advocacy for the Kashmir People's Tribunal, most recently helping launch a Kashmir awareness campaign with MTV Networks with his band, Zerobridge, lead by his brother Mubashir Mohi --Ud-Din, lead singer and songwriter of Zerobridge. Zerobridge, a New York based indie rock band, have released 3 albums and tour regularly in New York City. They recently completed a Music Diplomacy tour of Morocco sponsored by the U.S Embassy and played the Muslim Voices Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009. Zerobridge have played the World Islamic Economic Forum in Malaysia in 2010 and successfully completed an 8 show tour of Malaysia.

After receiving the Everett Fellowship Public Service Fellowship with the NGO Human Rights First in 2007, he worked full time for Human Rights First in the Crimes Against Humanity Program conducting international human rights advocacy as a Program Assistant from 2007-2009 for Darfur, Burma, and Kashmir. In 2009 Mohsin received the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship Award from the U.S State Department for a music and film/arts project he designed for orphans and street children in Morocco. For over one year Mohsin lead a music and arts initiative for street children, orphans, and drug addicts in Morocco, called Lollipops Crown Music and Arts Initiative. Working with the staff and kids from associations DARNA, AL-WAFA, AND DAR LEKBIRA, Mohsin taught street children and orphans how to make music and how to write, direct, and act in their own short films about the poverty and abuse they endure as well as the dreams and hopes they have. He produced 17 short films with the street children which have recently been shown at the famous Cine Rif Theater in Morocco and the World Islamic Economic Forum in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Mohsin also is a writer and is a monthly contributor to the Huffington Post, focusing his articles on human rights and Muslim-West relations.




Associations in Morocco to help:

DARNA ASSOCIATION- TANGIER
AL WAFA --BIR CHIFA
DARLEKBIRA- KENITRA

SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE IN MALAYSIA:
WIEF, Fazil, Aliou, WIEF STAFF, Moon, Azroz, Lina, Hani, Maryam, Zahriya, International Islamic Univserity of Malaysia

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