I’m an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker and journalist with a passion for vérité; capturing human emotions and moments as they happen. Many folks I’ve interviewed or filmed tell me they feel comfortable around me, that I’m easy to talk to. That’s my holy grail. I thrive while on the ground, hashing out the next shot, chasing the ever changing thread of a story.

I have reported on secret migrant prisons in Libya, Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris, Black Lives Matter in Italy, the 2005 elections in Lebanon, Hepatitis E epidemic in Nepal and genetically modified mosquitoes in Rome.

I developed a passion for observational film making when I first landed at The Washington Post’s website in 1998. At first, I worked in a temporary quality assurance role, looking for broken links and such during a site-wide redesign. I learned to fix the broken parts of the site and I landed a permanent job as the web developer for the Post’s pioneering multimedia section, Camera Works. One day, as I toiled away building web pages, I saw a video story one of my colleagues produced. Within seconds, I found my calling: video journalism. Two years later - with support from my wonderful bosses and colleagues - I officially transitioned from web developer to video journalist, a one-person band, backpack VJ. Ten years of intense learning, shooting, editing, storytelling.

In 2010, I left the Post and began working independently. I now work with clients like The New York Times, PBS Frontline, NPR, The World Bank and many others. I’ve worked on independent documentaries as a cinematographer, editor, director of photography, producer and director. In 2022, I began working with NPR in Washington, DC, first as a video editor and then as the visuals editor for NPR’s global health and development blog, Goats and Soda. I occasionally shot NPR’s famous Tiny Desk concerts as well.

My work has been in featured in art museums, film festivals, aired on public television and displayed at the 2022 Biennial in Versailles.

I was born in Beirut, Lebanon and I attended elementary and high school in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I lived in Paris, Riyadh, Cairo, Rome and now Washington, D.C. is home. I earned a bachelors in International Relations with minors in French and Philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, IL.

I’m a native English speaker with fluent French and Italian and intermediate Arabic.