I’m a Lebanese-American, four-time Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and podcaster. Most recently, I was a Senior Producer for Muck Media where I produced National Geographic/Disney+ documentary series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller and Science Fair: The Series. I also worked in their development department, finding stories, securing access to people in those stories, and pitching to potential partners and financiers.

In my past life, I was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering the Syrian war and its resulting refugee crisis. I also worked at Al Jazeera English, helped launch Al Jazeera America (RIP), and worked at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for a few years.

I grew up in post-civil war Lebanon and speak English, Arabic + a tiny bit of French. My mother grew up in Venezuela, so I am also well-versed in Spanish words of endearment and damnation.

Here’s a quote I love by Gillian Flynn: “I think the world can be divided into the people who like to look under the rock and the people who don’t want to look under the rock.” I’m the kind that looks under the rock.

I’m currently based in Los Angeles, CA.