Nezar Andary is a scholar and filmmaker based in Abu Dhabi. He edits a book series on Arab Cinema for Palgrave where he published a book entitled The Cinema of Muhammad Malas and. His feature film on the Unlocking Doors of Cinema premiered at the Cairo International Film Festival 2019. Previously, Andary conceived and directed the documentary theatre in 2016 Memories of Childhood the premiered in the Abu Dhabi Festival. Andary has written in Arabic on the journalist Anthony Shadid and his relationship to creative non fiction and recently completed a manuscript on the influence of Ibn Khaldun in Contemporary Global Culture. Andary is published in journals like Alif, Banipal, Al-Jadid, Journal of Middle East Studies, Emergences, among others. In February 2020, he was the Artistic Director of the first Alsidr Environmental Film Festival sponsored by Zayed University and the Environmental Agency, Abu Dhabi.