"Finding Home"

Finding Home is a video and audio collage where I explore what it means to be Arab American. I use sound bites from local Milwaukee radio stations like WUWM 89.7 and from presidential debates to reflect on how Arab American identity keeps evolving.

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I weave together moments from my parents’ immigrant journeys, visits to their homelands in Lebanon and the UAE, and everyday scenes from my work commute—where “American-ism” shows up in the stickers plastered on street signs.

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The video shifts between dreamlike fragments and sharp glimpses of the present, mirroring the way I move between memory and reality. 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?