Discover Top Freelancers in Lebanon

Mia Alberti is a multimedia freelance reporter with a strong focus on Europe and Latin America. Currently working between São Paulo and Lisbon, Mia has covered some of the most important news stories in the last years, from the Venezuelan migrant crisis, the Amazon fires, violence against indigenous people, Brexit, terrorist attacks in Europe and the covid-19 pandemic.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Full-Service Live Production
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

A self shoot producer, director and editor based in Erbil, Iraq and founder of Yalla! Yalla! Films. George is currently working for a local production company in Northern Iraq, producing short form youth focused documentaries. Prior to this, he worked as an in house self shoot producer for an award winning BBC One current affairs program. He started work as a photojournalist during the Arab Spring, first in Egypt and then Libya, before moving into video work in South East Asia, Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and now the UK. In addition to the above, George holds a BA from Kings College London in War Studies, and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He grew up in South East Asia and and has since worked all over the world with work published by the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Vice News, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, the Independent, the European Press Photo agency and more.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP

Lebanon-based Dalia Khamissy is a Lebanese-born photographer who is interested in the Middle East’s socio-political stories. In 2005 she works for the Associated Press as photo editor in its Beirut office. She quits end of 2006, after the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, and focuses her lens on the aftermath of Lebanon’s wars and their impact on people. In 2010 she starts her ongoing project "Missing of Lebanon", photographing the families of the estimated 17,000 missing of Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war. In 2011, she covers for years the aftermath of the war in Syria, specifically the lives of refugees in Lebanon and Jordan for different newspapers and INGOs. She is currently working on the aftermath of the 4 August, 2020, Beirut blast. Her pictures have been exhibited widely in Europe, South America, US and the MENA region. She is published in local and international publications (Le Monde, le Figaro, the Guardian, NYT, FT, WSJ, the WashPost, Economist...) as well as different INGOs.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer

Dania Bdeir is a Lebanese writer/director of Syrian origins. She was born in Canada, where her parents fled to escape the Lebanese civil war, and then moved back to Beirut where she got her Bacherlor's degree in graphic design at the American University of Beirut. Dania is getting her MFA in film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her short film Kaleidoscope, shot in Beirut has traveled to numerous film festivals around the world. She is currently living in between Lebanon and New York while she writes her first feature film which she plans to shoot in both Beirut and New York as her thesis film. Dania has always had a passion for Lebanon and sharing the untold stories of the Middle East. This passion draws her to journalistic and documentary work that deal with people and social issues, which she enjoys and uses as inspiration for her narrative work.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director

www.hajjarsisters.com Elsy Hajjar is a Beirut-based Director of Photography shooting in the commercial and narrative space. Her first short film “I Call it Love" (2013) won her several cinematography awards and prizes. “The Rifle, The jackal, The Wolf and The Boy” a short film shot by Elsy Hajjar, was shortlisted for the Live-action shorts section at the Oscars (2016) "Aziza" a film shot by Elsy and directed by Syrian filmmaker Saudade Kaadan won Best Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival (2019) Hajjar is working as a Beirut-based freelance cinematographer, and often travels to various destinations for work. Cinematography and filmmaking are an intense passion that drives every day of her life. She is highly interested in social issues, human rights, minority rights, and gender studies.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Gaffer
• Digital Content Creator

Credited Field Producer for The Shockwave - VICE news. A duPont award winning documentary about the horror and heroism inside a Beirut hospital minutes after the explosion on August 4th, 2020. Amongst other work with VICE, The World, and Foreign Policy. I have a car available, and am adept at giving context, finding characters, and gaining access through social media, personal networking and other legal means. I am calm in uncomfortable situations, and I am good at thinking on my feet, and having contingency plans in case some issue may arise to hamper production. I can translate from Arabic to English on the fly, am familiar with production needs related to documentary, video, and audio production, and am well connected in Lebanon.

• Fixer
• Field Producer

Trained international news and politics reporter with extensive experience in shooting and video editing, broadcast writing and presenting, for breaking news in fast-paced broadcast environments and longer-form doc-style projects. Iranian/British background, London born and raised with experience working in diverse communities and challenging conditions. Oxford and Ivy League educated in politics, social issues and foreign policy. Experience and training in hostile environments. Trained in broadcast storytelling with Vin Ray and camera skills with Philip Bloom. Worked for The Economist, Al Jazeera English, BBC, United Nations TV, Politics Home and local New York news site DNAinfo.com.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Reporter / Journalist

Areej Mahmoud is a screenwriter and director living in Lebanon, working on various independent projects and as an entertainment consultant for TV shows including WebTV show “Sadeem”. He started his career in advertising, where he worked for 12 years. In 2015, he completed his first short film “Sparks”, that was screened at the European Independent Film Festival. In 2016 he received a Fulbright Scholarship to complete an MFA in Cinema Directing at Columbia College Chicago. His film “What Remains” was shortlisted at the BAFTA student awards in 2018 and is premiering at the Arabian Sights FilmFestival in WashingtonDC on Oct 2019.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director
• Executive Producer

I hold a Bachelor of Recording Arts Degree as well as an Audio Engineering Diploma from SAE Institute and Middlesex University in the UK. I’ve specialized in audio post production for 10 years now, and I can cover jobs ranging from sound design and music composition, to recording, mixing, and audio restoration. I’ve had the fortune to develop a substantial regional client base but would like to expand and provide my services to the rest of the world.

• Sound Mixer
• Music Composer
• Sound Designer

Dana is a Lebanese-American reporter based between Beirut, Lebanon and California. She mainly covers the Syrian war, refugee crisis, and entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Her strengths are in reporting, writing, photography, shooting and basic video editing. She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, and the United Nations Development Program in Beirut. Dana holds a Masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• TV News Producer

Based between Beirut and New York, my expertise is human rights and storytelling. I find stories of strength and resilience in the midst of extraordinary circumstances. I shoot, produce and edit as a one-man-band. Was formerly with HRW for 5 years as a video producer, now work for HRW, Amnesty International and OSF.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Creative Director

TV journalist bas in Paris. Travelling often for freelance stories. Focus on : Lebanon, Syria, and USA. Also able to work as a fixer in Paris and France. Previously based in Beirut from 2012 - 2015. Previous works for : TV5 Monde, TF1, Canal +, RTS (Swiss), Huffington Post, Irinnews Both videographer (with my own camera) and print journalist. Able to write in english and french.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Born in Lebanon, Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel studied Photography for a year before turning into film studies and receving her Master degree in 2000. Since then she has been working as a Director of Photography on many award winning documentary films revolving around humanitarian and sociopolitical issues in the Middle East and in the North Africa region.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I'm a skilled Video Producer and photographer with more than 10 years of experience. I film and edit documentaries for international NGOs and I cover stories for different channels. I also work on promotional spots, corporate movies and events.

• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fixer

I'm a cinematographer and Editor living in Beirut shooting documentaries, comercials and short films all over the world. I'm always willing to experiment with process. I own and operate several different camera and lighting systems depending on the needs of the client.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker based between New York and Beirut. Her cinematic interests have drawn Jude to the exploration of the esoteric, the spiritual and the unspoken. A richly layered visual and intimate personal shooting style developed under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami’s final student group; Jude has been credited in collaborations with the BBC, Refinery29, Oxfam GB, and Doctors Without Borders. She has worked as a DP internationally, on films in Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan and was most recently, an AP on Sesame Street’s newest show for Syrian refugees. Her work has been awarded fellowships through: CAAM, NeXtDoc, Points North Institute, Firelight Media, Close-Up and Chicken and Egg. Jude is currently in production on her first feature documentary based in Lebanon and has been supported by: IDA, ITVS, TFI, Sundance and recently was awarded First Prize in the Docs in Progress program at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. www.judechehab.com

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Reporter / Journalist

Writer based in the Middle East, speak conversational Arabic. Previously refugee lawyer. Broad interests: people, places, language, identity. Education: Oxford University (BA Hons, 1st) and Stonyhurst College | Published in The Guardian, The Independent, Huffington Post, Liberty, TRT, Inside Time, The Canary as well as a number of academic legal journals and blogs. Founder and previous editor of No Walls blog: https://www.no-walls-dl.org/ | Languages: English (native), Formal and Levantine Arabic (conversational) and French (conversational) | Previously senior caseworker in public/refugee law at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2016-2019). Challenged detention of pregnant women under immigration powers (MS & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Office) | Intern at European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (Press Unit), volunteer at JRS Malta (interpreter, refugee advice and advocacy) and Xavier Project |

• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Fixer

I am a photographer, video journalist and writer based in the Middle East. I trained as a press photographer in the UK and cut my teeth working for national publications before moving to Iraqi Kurdistan In 2013. I became picture editor and trainer at Metrography, Iraq's first photo agency, where I mentored photographers and worked to raise the profile of Iraqi photojournalism on the international stage. After leaving Metrography, I covered the rise and fall of the Islamic State in Iraq and the changing fortunes of Iraqi Kurdistan and worked across the Middle East and further afield. I am a regular collaborator with Raw Music International, making short films about music in changing places. With RMI I've produced films from Iraq, Myanmar, Ukraine and Mongolia. My work has been published in the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Neon Magazine, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Die Zeit and CNN, amongst others. My video work has appeared on NBC.com, Time.com, Al Jazeera America, CNN/Great Big Story.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Production Company

Journalist and researcher on the Lebanese file and the repercussions of regional transformations on the Lebanese and Syrian affairs. I have journalistic and research contributions to many newspapers, websites and study centers. I participated in the preparation of many documentaries and television episodes for many televisions, such as Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabi and BBC Arabic. I participated in many conferences in Lebanon, countries of the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf as a speaker on Lebanese and Syrian affairs and international and regional transformations related to the Middle East and its conflicts. I also work as a consultant in media and political affairs and foreign relations for many Lebanese ministers and parliamentarians through the Recode Consulting Services Foundation. With a group of experts, she contributed to preparing many political papers for emerging political groups in Lebanon. She also participated in preparing electoral projects and plans for candidates for the parliamentary elections in Lebanon in 2018 and 2022. I co-founded the Alternative Press Syndicate gathering in Lebanon after the October 17, 2019 uprising, which is an alternative professional and syndicate framework that defends the rights of journalists. I have been a member of the Assembly’s board of directors since the summer of 2021.

• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Senior Editor
• Executive Producer

الإسم: ياسر هلال العنوان: لبنان ـ بعبدا الهاتف: 009613236208 بريد إلكتروني: yahoo.com@y_salim111 الخبرة: مجلة الاقتصاد والأعمال: 2004 ـ لغاية الآن - مدير تحرير، - تأسيس وإدارة الموقع الإلكتروني iktissadonline.com (حتى العام 2020) FREELANCER: صحيفة المدن، نشرة أفق (مؤسسة الفكر العربي) المعهد العربي للتخطيط - منظمة إقليمية مقرها الكويت 2001- 2004. - مستشار إعلامي: إعداد وتنفيذ الخطط الإعلامية. - الإشراف على إصدار نشرة بحثية شهرية. المؤسسة العربية لضمان الاستثمار - منظمة إقليمية مقرها الكويت: - رئيس وحدة الإعلام والنشر. - باحث اقتصادي. جريدة الوحدة - دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. 1980 - 1983: - مدير التحرير، رئيس القسم الاقتصادي. جريدة الخليج - دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. 1980 - 1980: رئيس القسم الاقتصادي مجلة الأزمنة العربية - دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. 1979 - 1980: محرر اقتصادي واجتماعي التعليم: - ليسانس في علم اجتماع - 1977 ، الجامعة اللبنانية، بيروت.

• Copywriter
• Senior Editor
• Reporter / Journalist