Omar Mouallem

Omar Mouallem is a Canadian writer[1] and filmmaker. He has contributed to Wired, The Guardian, NewYorker.com and RollingStone.com. His essays and features have garnered him recognition from the Canadian National Magazine Awards and Alberta Literary Awards.[2] He co-authored a book about the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire titled "Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray" (published by Simon & Schuster Canada).[3] His book “Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas,” a travelogue centred around 13 mosques, was named one of the best books of 2021 by The Globe and Mail.[4]

Omar Mouallem
Born (1985-09-13) September 13, 1985
Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada
OccupationWriter, Filmmaker

He won a 2014 Canadian National Magazine Awards for the Eighteen Bridges story, "The Kingdom of Haymour", which profiled a man who took the Canadian Embassy in Beirut hostage in the 1970s over a British Columbia land dispute.[1] The article partially inspired the 2020 documentary film “Eddy’s Kingdom”, for which Mouallem was a key interview. [5]

Mouallem directed and produced two documentaries, 2019’s “Digging in the Dirt”, a CBC coproduction about a mental health crises in the Alberta oil sands workforce, and 2021’s “The Last Baron”, a first-person film about the unlikely connection between Lebanon’s civil war and the Canadian fast-food chain Burger Baron. [6]

In 2013, he won Edmonton's Emerging Artist Award and served as the Edmonton Public Library's writer in residence.[7]

References
  1. Awards, National Magazine (7 June 2014). "Announcing the Winners of the 37th annual National Magazine Awards!".
  2. "2017 Alberta Literary Awards Shortlist".
  3. "Official Page – Inside the Inferno".
  4. "The Globe 100: The books we loved in 2021".
  5. "Eddy's Kingdom (2020)".
  6. "The Last Baron documentary looks at Edmonton fast food royalty's legacy".
  7. "Lund wins Ambassador for the Arts Award". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
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