About Me

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I’m a Lebanese-American video journalist and documentary film director based in Rome and Washington, D.C. I began my career as a video journalist at The Washington Post in 1999. I learned to shoot video, edit, report, write and narrate on the job producing over 100 video news stories for the newspaper's website. Ten years later, I started freelancing and soon started working with The New York Times, NPR, PBS’s Frontline, The World Bank Group, UNICEF and many more. I’ve reported on the election of President Barack Obama, 2005 elections in Lebanon, the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris, Black Matter in Italy, a Hepatitis E epidemic in Nepal and genetically modified mosquitoes in Italy. I’m a native English speaker with fluent French and Italian with intermediate Arabic.

My work has garnered numerous accolades including two Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow Award and the George Polk Award. I received the James Foley Medal of Courage in 2022 for my work in Libya documenting migrant detention centers. I was named 2007 Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association.