Omar Mouallem is an author, filmmaker, and educator. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, WIRED, and Maclean’s, where he is a contributing editor. His book 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 Arab immigrants, won the 2023 Audience Choice for Best Doc at Northwest International Documentary Festival. His latest film Making Kayfabe is on CBC Gem.
He also 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. OmarMouallem.com | X: @OmarMouallem
Omar will present the morning workshop, Tech Tools for the Modern Writer and Editor.
