Practice-based Ph.D. – Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
MA Media Arts and Design – Bauhaus University Weimar
BA Design and Visual Communication – German Jordanian University
Ciclic Animation Residency (France, 2024 | Shadows), Berlin Artist-in-Residence AiR (Greece, 2023 | Portrait of A), Fontevraud Residency (France, 2021 | Shadows), Haus Am See Residency (Germany, 2021 | Tell Them About Us), Arab Cinema Award at Cairo Film Connection (Egypt, 2020 | Tell Them About Us), Graduate Scholarship of the Film University Babelsberg (Germany, 2019-2022), Winner of Mifa Animation du Monde (Lebanon, 2020 | Shadows ), Award for Best Pitch at Empfang der Filmhochschulen (Germany, 2020 | Tell Them About Us), Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for International Cooperation – Nominations (2020 | Shadows), Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for International Cooperation (2018 | Encountering Samir), Winner of Best Elevator Pitch at Fajr International Film Festival (Iran, 2019 | Shadows), The Tribeca Film Institute – If/Then Competition grant at CPH:DOX (2017 | Nudar), Special mention at Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung Nachwuchstag (2017 | Nudar), ESP Jury Prize for the International Script Pitch at Interfilm Berlin (2016 | Encountering Samir)
Berlinale Talents (Germany), Beirut Talents (Lebanon), Rotterdam Lab (Netherlands), Film Leader Incubator Asia (Korea, Thailand, Japan), Documentary Campus (Germany), Locarno Documentary School (Switzerland), Robert Bosch Film Prize (Egypt, Germany), ANIDOX:LAB (Denmark, Sweden), Talent Campus (Iran), Producers Guild of America PGA (Jordan), Interaction Camp (Serbia), Artivits for Change (Greece), Nisi Masa – European Short Pitch (Malta, Poland), Arab Animated Forum ITFS (Germany), Film Independent (Egypt) and Ji.hlava Academy (Czech Republic).
Munich International Documentary Film Festival, workshop “Towards a Participatory Approach” , 2022
AG Animation “Political Animation – Animation Politics”- Symposium, 2021
Film University Babelsberg – Experimentelles Erzählen Seminar, 2021
Film University Babelsberg & GEECT – Transversal Entanglement – Artistic Research in Film conference, 2021
Zurich University of the Arts – “GADGETS, PHONES AND DRONES” conference, 2021
Women Make Film – Panel discussion, 2020
FilmArche Berlin – Documentary film workshop, 2020
Bauhaus University Weimar – Migration/ Collaborative Filmmaking, 2017