Areeb Zuaiter

Areeb Zuaiter is a multinational filmmaker based in Washington D.C.. Her work focuses on art, identity, and social issues. She holds an MA in Film and Video from American University. Zuaiter’s work has won multiple international awards. Her debut short, Stained, won the Jury Award at Beirut’s European International Film Festival. Her documentary, Colors of Resistance, was nominated for Sony’s Outstanding Thesis Award and won multiple awards at the Colorado Activism Film Festival and the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards. Zuaiter had previously worked at the Associated Press, and served as a Goldman Sachs Film and Video Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Zuaiter led the Regional Training Department at the Royal Film Commission – Jordan, and taught at several universities in Washington D.C.. In addition to working on her films, Zuaiter heads the programming department at the Amman International Film Festival.