Omar Mouallem is an author, filmmaker, and educator. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. His book Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas won the 2022 Wilfrid Eggleston Nonfiction Award and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2021. His documentary The Lebanese Burger Mafia, which documents the unlikely link between fast food and Lebanese immigrants, won Best Documentary at Northwest Fest and Silk Road International Film Festival. Omar teaches creative nonfiction at the University of King’s College and is the “fake dean” of Pandemic University School of Writing, a virtual school he founded in support of writers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. He lives in Edmonton, Canada. Follow him on Twitter @OmarMouallem and find him at OmarMouallem.com.

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