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An Iraqi writer and director. He grew up in southern Iraq during wartime, and over the years worked in journalism, production, and as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Graduate Film Program. He received the Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize and the Sloan Foundation Production Award. He is a 2022 Sundance Lab Fellow. “The President’s Cake” is his feature film debut.