BRITISH-LEBANESE WRITER, AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER, MEDIA EXECUTIVE & ENTREPRENEUR.
Most recently, I have been Head of Content at SRMG, Editor-in-Chief of Esquire Middle East, Esquire Saudi and Esquire Qatar and Contributing Editor at GQ Middle East.
In 2019, I co-founded Last Floor Productions to bring more Arab voices into the global film & television industries. 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 multi-award winning independent short It Gets Darker, premiering at the Screamfest Horror Festival in Los Angeles and a series of documentary shorts for Apple and the V&A Museum in London.
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My writing has appeared in publications including The Guardian, GQ Middle East, GQ India, Little White Lies, Monocle, Brownbook, and Time Out. I have also been 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 (Unbound Books, May 2022)
Photo by Liz Seabrook
For the past decade, my work has been driven by a desire to amplify voices from the Middle East and its diasporas by bringing them into the global entertainment industry. Besides my strategic and editorial skills, I use my background as a published author, cultural commentator and journalist to tell the stories of individuals and organizations I work with.
I live in Dubai with my wife Nour, our son Dia and our cat Izzy.
I’m a proud member of The Society of Authors in the UK.