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I am an Iraqi currently residing in UK, and holder of an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (RSICA). After obtaining my Masters Degree in 2012, as a director/editor I started working as a scriptwriter for Arab Telemedia Group (ATG), the Amman based production house most known for its TV series and whose TV series, The Invasion, received an Emmy award. At this company I had the exciting opportunity to work on developing a sci-fi/drama television series, a first of its kind in the Arab world. I was assigned my second major project at ATG, his time as Main Writer for a historical fantasy series. The Last Hour in 2012 was my first film as a director. The movie won 5 awards and was nominated in 11 film festivals around the world, and screened on BBC Arabic channel. I also worked as writer for an educational children television series (a project by Rubicon Holding), as head writer for a historical crime series (a project by Spika Production Company with British historical writer), and as writer for a science TV show called Moment 1 and 2, which was screened on the Arab channel MBC TV channel in Ramadan 2016/17. Writing for film is also a great passion of mine. In the past few years, I have written three short films, one of them was selected to the Project Market Amman 2015 of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. My first feature film screenplay, Baghdad Perfume, was selected to the Rawi/Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab in 2014. I was an artist in at Leeds Beckett University, where I wrote and directed a short film called the BLACK HOUSE.