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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Among the many Iraq docs I’ve seen over the last few years, Usama Alshaibi’s “Nice Bombs” offers a refreshing new perspective on the quagmire. Opening the Chicago Undeground Film Festival today as a ...

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 ...

Like everyone else, Colorado filmmaker Usama Alshaibi‘s life has been changed by the coronavirus pandemic. As a teacher at Colorado State University, he found himself putting his classes online. And ...