Received B.A. in Communication and Fine Arts from the University of Haifa and a diploma from the School of Screenwriting (Tel Aviv), both in 2001. Since 1995, has worked as an editor, graphic designer and correspondent with the newspaper Al-Ittihad and numerous other Arabic publications, as a radio announcer, and as an associate television scriptwriter. Worked previously with Mossawa and I’LAM, Palestinian NGOs in Israel; and served as parliamentary assistant to MK Muhammad Barakeh. Author of a novel, The Circus (2001), a collection of short stories; and a play. Two-time winner of the al-Qattan Young Writer Award. Script titled "The Inheritance" awarded second prize in School of Screenwriting (Tel Aviv) competition