Hanan Abu Thuraya

Eman Abu Thuraya

Khaled Sabawi

Sami Sabawi

Melissa Morgan

Jason Bash

Ibrahim Muhaisen

Yasmeen Mahmoud

Akram Abu Khousa

Alaa Khattab

Ahmad Abu Abdou

Fady Alwazir

<p>Sandy Climan is a Golden Globe and British Academy Award winning producer of Martin Scorsese&rsquo;s The Aviator. He previously served as part of the senior management at CAA for 12 years, representing talent including Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Danny DeVito, and director Michael Mann. He also founded CAA&rsquo;s corporate practice, working with global companies including Sony Corporation on its acquisition of Columbia Pictures, Matsushita Electric on its acquisition of MCA/Universal, Credit Lyonnais on its restructuring of MGM, Coca-Cola, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic and other Fortune 500 Companies.</p>
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Sandy Climan - Strategic Advisor

<p>Mr. Reed co-founded and serves as the publisher of&nbsp;<strong>Brick Moon Fiction</strong>, a media company that produces original science fiction short stories and audio dramas by working with writers from diverse backgrounds to explore the impact of technology and trends on human society.&nbsp; Building on his experiences at The Walt Disney Company and Brick Moon Fiction, Mr. Reed is in the process of launching a new company,&nbsp;<strong>KidPod Theater</strong>, that focuses on bringing high-quality family entertainment to podcasting.</p>
<p>Mr. Reed received degrees in Philosophy and Cinema-Television Production from the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children</p>

Jason Reed

<p>Richard Kletter taught screenwriting to grad students at USC&rsquo;s School of Cinematic Arts for a decade.&nbsp; After graduate school in Communications Policy at Stanford and consulting work for major foundations, NGOs and corporations, he turned to Hollywood and has written, directed and/or produced nearly twenty films and TV movies, including &ldquo;Never Cry Wolf,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Odd Girl Out.&rdquo;&nbsp; He&rsquo;s worked for nearly every major studio and network.&nbsp; His work has been nominated for a Golden Globe and his short film, &ldquo;Teach 109,&rdquo; based on an idea by Isaac Asimov, won a Cine Golden Eagle and was chosen to represent the U.S. in festivals and cultural exchanges around the world.&nbsp; He has run web content and mobile software companies and co-holds two mobile software patents.&nbsp; He consults on&nbsp;story&nbsp;and character development both internationally and domestically for game and software companies, and for writers, directors and producers.&nbsp;</p>
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Richard Kletter

<p>Maysoon Zayid is an actress, comedian, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and is a guest writer for Vice. She has most recently appeared on CNN&rsquo;s New Day, 60 Minutes, and ABC News. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC. As a professional comedian, she has performed in top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. Maysoon was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Muslims Are Coming Tour. She appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don&rsquo;t Mess with the Zohan and is a recurring character on General Hospital. Maysoon limped in New York Fashion Week and is the host of the web series, Advice You Don&rsquo;t Want to Hear. She is the author of the bestselling memoir, &ldquo;Find Another Dream&rdquo; and is the creator of the &ldquo;Book of Bay Ann&rdquo; children&rsquo;s graphic novel series.</p>
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Maysoon Zayid

Andy Wolk

<p>Julia Bacha is a Peabody award-winning filmmaker, Guggenheim Fellow, and the Creative Director at Just Vision. She started her filmmaking career in Cairo, where she wrote and edited Control Room (2004), for which she was nominated to the Writer&rsquo;s Guild of America Award. Subsequently she directed Encounter Point (2006), Budrus (2009), My Neighbourhood (2012) and Naila and the Uprising (2017). Her work has been exhibited at the Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals, broadcast on the BBC, HBO and Al Jazeera, and profiled in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist.</p>

Julia Bacha

<p>Mark V. Vlasic is an Executive Producer on&nbsp;<a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cbs-blood-and-treasure-1202627098/" target="_blank">a major network action-adventure scripted summer series</a>&nbsp;in pre-production. With experience that spans multiple industries connecting high-level stakeholders around the world, Mark&rsquo;s extensive background speaks for itself: an international lawyer, advisor, professor, prosecutor and diplomat, Mark has worked for the White House, the Pentagon, the World Bank, the United Nations, and a large international law firm.</p>
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