"Finding Home"

Finding Home is a video and audio collage where I explore what it means to be Arab American. ​I weave together photographs from my parents’ immigrant journeys, visits to their homelands in Lebanon and the UAE, everyday scenes from my work commute, and sound bites from local radio stations and the 2024 presidential debate.

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The video shifts between dreamlike fragments and sharp glimpses of the present, mirroring the way I move between my memories and the present. It’s an ongoing oscillation between clarity and haze, one that shapes my experience as a first-generation American.

 

Through this, I ask: What does it mean to be Arab? What conversations shape my world? And how do the ways society sees Arabs affect how I see myself?