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 a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis, for the academic year 2023-2024. I have been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, a position I will start officially in the Fall of 2024.

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

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.