BRITISH-LEBANESE WRITER, PRODUCER, MEDIA EXECUTIVE & ENTREPRENEUR.
I co-founded Last Floor Productions to bring more Arab voices into the global film & television industries. More recently, I founded Dark Coast Media, a media company based between London and Dubai working on formats and stories across film, TV, books, podcasts and experimenting with new forms. Stray Dogs, an 80s-set political thriller I created, is being developed at Dark Coast - with BAFTA-winning producer Sophie Venner (Taletime Pictures).
Most recently I served as creator and showrunner on Doubt, a 10-episode psychological thriller television series produced for MBC Shahid. I served as executive producer on 8-episode action comedy series Fixer (also for MBC Shahid). I am also the executive producer on independent short It Gets Darker, premiering at the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles and a series of documentary shorts for Apple and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
I am launch Features Director at YUNG, an audiovisual platform dedicated to Middle Eastern and African creatives, and a contributing writer at GQ Middle East, where I chat with the leading artists, musicians, actors, directors and pop stars from the Arab World and its diasporas.
Elsewhere, my writing has appeared in publications including The Guardian, GQ India, GQ Brasil, Little White Lies, Monocle, Brownbook, and Time Out. I am also a regular contributor to the BBC Arts Hour on the BBC World Service and BBC Sounds.
In 2012 I published a best-selling collection of stories & essays, Our Man in Beirut (Turning Point Books). I have participated in a number of anthologies - most recently Haramacy (May 2022 from British publisher Unbound).
