My two short films, The Flowering and Dream of Samarra, are both playing Friday, November 8 at 10pm at the Spectacle Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. This is part of
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Check out Kino Klub Split, a film society in Croatia, holding weekly screenings and they’ve been playing many of my films all year. This week they will be showing my
My podcasts, Usama Talk, will be airing on Lumpen Radio! Playing on the FM dial in Chicago 105.5, and streaming on lumpenradio.com this Friday morning and re-broadcasting Saturday morning at 11am Chicago
The Muslim Meme will be playing at the Roxie Theatre Press Release: Dear Friends, We are excited to announce a week-long theatrical run of Filmmakers Unite (FU) at the Roxie
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The Muslim Meme and Baghdad, Iowa will play at the YallaPunk fest with City of Djinn. More info: YallaPunk is an annual gathering of Arab, Persian, MENA, etc. intersectional creatives.
Welcome to Baghdad, Iowa will have its Canadian premiere at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival for the 90 seconds film program.
My one minute short film Welcome to Baghdad, Iowa will be premiering at the Aurora Picture Show’s Extremely Shorts Film Festival Texas. Very happy to play there again!
My short film The Flowering will have its World Premiere at the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival. Starring Madeleine Ours and Daniel Peaslee, with original music written and composed by Micah Bezold, puppeteer and
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Mizna Arab Film Festival: Experimental Arab Film January 6, 2018 This wintertime screening, curated by Andrea Shaker and Michelle Baroody and co-presented by Mizna and the Minnesota Museum of American
My new short film The Muslim Meme (with music by Marvin J. Gladney) will have its world premiere at DOK Leipzig on November 1, 2017. My film is part of traveling