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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Filmmaker/Writer
Location	Eugene, Oregon, United States
Introduction	I was born in Oregon but I spent most of my childhood in Damascus, Syria (my father's hometown). I went to Mills College and fell in love with the Bay Area, but returned to Oregon and worked at Eugene Public Library for 9 years before heading to film school in British Columbia. After I graduated from Simon Fraser University, I visited Syria. But I left before the "Arab Spring." I'm currently writing "Damascus Chronicles," a memoir of my childhood in Syria. The most finished segment is called "Second Grade Dropout" and covers my time in a Syrian boys' school. I've also written a short film "See How Your Life Is?" [Shayfeh Keef, Hiyatek?] that is in production, and I continue working on my documentary, "El Hijab," about Syrian women and the choice to wear or not to wear the Muslim head-scarf. I wrote my first feature script in 2013, just for practice. It's called "The Paragon." I also make jewelry and other accessories to sell from my Etsy shop Bell Panache.
Interests	Filmmaking (including narrative, experimental, & documentary), Writing, Dancing, Jewelry making (mostly beads), singing, Ice Skating (figure), acting (to keep stage fright at bay).
Favorite Movies	Kenneth Anger's Eaux D'Artifice, Be Gone Dull Care, My Winnipeg, Persepolis, Meshes of the Afternoon, Glory, The Syrian Bride all speak to my heart. BUT I can be totally mainstream too: The Swashbuckler, Serenity, Kunda Kundain Kunda Kundain ("I Have Found It"), X-men, Singing in the Rain, From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Funny Face, Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, Star Trek Insurrection, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Four Weddings and a Funeral, A Room with a View, Practical Magic, Slither, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Fido... for starters
Favorite Music	Kiya Sourat Hai (Bombay Vikings), Depeche Mode, Nik Kershaw, Nick Heyward, Anouar Brahem, Michael Buble, Eurythmics, Sam Phillips, UB40, Island in the Sun (Weezer), Peter Salett, XTC, Carla Bruni, Pet Shop Boys, Bill Douglas, "classical" (i.e. Tchiakovsky, Beethoven, Chopin....ballet stuff). Nick Chase. ________ It's all in there, depending on my mood.
Favorite Books	The Loved One, Put Out More Flags, Helena, Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords, Snow Crash, ___of Shannara (some, not all), Vanity Fair, Silas Marner, Friday's Child, Frankenstein, Titanic: the making of James Cameron, The Founding Fathers on Leadership, Our Endangered Values, An Unexpected Life: Queen Noor Speaks About Her Life, Both Left and Right Handed: Arab Women Speak About Their Lives.