Last night the 21st Chicago Underground Film Festival closed with Usama Alshaibi’s American Arab, a documentary profile of various Arab immigrants and the American-born children of Arab parents. It’s ...

Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi was claims to have been beaten in an anti-Arab attack Saturday night in Fairfield, Iowa, where he moved with his wife Kristie last summer after 16 years in Chicago. Alshaibi ...

In his documentary and experimental movies, Boulder-based filmmaker Usama Alshaibi has long looked at how historical trauma influences the present. When COVID-19 hit, he started an audio diary and ...

Disarmingly casual, seemingly artless "personal diary" docu "Nice Bombs" makes decidedly sophisticated use of home-movie aesthetics in its exploration of Iraq at the onset of the American Occupation ...

FAIRFIELD, Iowa (CBS) --A documentary-maker for a Chicago-based film production company says he was attacked in Iowa while making a film about the treatment of Arabs in the United States. Usama ...

No charges will be filed in the alleged assault of an Arab-American filmmaker who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime earlier this month in Fairfield. Jefferson County Attorney Tim Dille says ...

He chronicled war-torn Iraq through the eyes of its citizens, but filmmaker Usama Alshaibi says he didn’t feel the sting of violence until he crashed a house party last weekend in the tiny Iowa town ...

FAIRFIELD, Iowa, March 8 (UPI) -- An independent filmmaker says he was beaten up after crashing a party in a small Iowa town and telling people his name is Usama. Usama Alshaibi told the Chicago ...

You have to hand it to Trembles. Week in and week out he provides us with the lowdown on films both well known and obscure in a way that no one else does. On tap today we have a member of the obscure ...

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Usama Alshaibi is a director, writer and producer. He has spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. His films have received grants from the Creative Capital ...

In early 2004 Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returned to his native Iraq with his wife, producer Kristie Alshaibi, and his camera. He had been away for nearly a quarter-century. The result is a ...