Anisa Marie Mehdi is an Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 and obtained her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
[1] Her most notable documentary was Inside Mecca, which she produced and directed for National Geographic television.
As executive producer of the PBS Frontline special "Muslims", she received the 2002 Cine Golden Eagle Award.
[2] She is currently writing a biography on her father, Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, an Arab American activist in the United States.