BRITISH-LEBANESE WRITER, AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER, MEDIA EXECUTIVE & ENTREPRENEUR.

I am currently the Editor of The National’s TN Magazine as part of IMI. I have previously 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.

I am the co-founder of Last Floor Productions, where 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.

Most recently I have served as executive producer on The Long Away Game, which was selected by the Warner Bros. Discovery Access initiative and aired during the Champions’ League final on TNT Sports in the UK, and the forthcoming short documentary Swim Sistas which is narrated by Academy Award-nominee Naomie Harris and produced by BAFTA-nominated Candid Broads Productions.

I have multiple projects in development through my production company Dark Coast Media, focused on Mediterranean crime stories.

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)

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.