I’m a documentary filmmaker with a passion for vérité, capturing real life moments in peoples’ lives as they happen. My work has garnered accolades including the James Foley Medal of Courage in 2022 for my work as part of a team documenting secret migrant detention centers in Libya.

The Philadelphia Art Museum exhibited my work as a director of photography and editor for Whitman, Alabama and my photographs have been displayed at the 2022 Architecture and Landscape 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. I majored in International Relations with minors in French and Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.

In 1998, I began working at The Washington Post’s website. I was first hired in a temporary position where I clicked around the site and reported what was broken. I soon learned to fix the mistakes and, in early 1999, I was offered 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 became captivated by a video story one of my colleagues produced. In a matter of seconds, I had found my calling: video journalism. I was lucky to have a supportive boss and patient colleagues who taught me the trade. Two years later, I officially transitioned from web developer to video journalist.

In 2010, I left the Post and began freelancing. I now work with clients like The New York Times, PBS Frontline, NPR, The World Bank and many others. I’ve also worked on independent documentaries in roles like cinematographer, editor, director of photography, producer and director. In 2022, I began working with NPR in Washington, DC, first as a video editor creating the visual newscast (a visual version of the hourly radio newscast) and then as the visuals editor with NPR’s global health and development blog, Goats and Soda. I had the pleasure of filming many a Tiny Desk concert at NPR as well.

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