I am an independent filmmaker, film scholar, and multimedia journalist. For over fifteen years, I worked as a Middle East reporter for national and international publications and as a researcher, producer, and director of TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN, and ARTE. Since 2011, I have been making independent hybrid films that screened at international film festivals and received several awards. My feature films include: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) and Here I am ... Here you are (2016).

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

I hold a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities, my new feature documentary, will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival, in November 2024.

Listen to a December 2023 interview about my research projects with The Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies (The University of California Santa, Barbara) titled, On the Exilic Condition, Queerness as a Verb, and Writing through Imagery.

Listen to an interview from November 2021 about my film projects and research on the Arab Queer Podcast.