I’m a writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, podcast producer and educator. I’ve worked for such outlets as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, CBC TV, and The Guardian, and appeared on Al Jazeera, WNYC, and other networks. My book How Muslims Shaped the Americas, won the 2022 Wilfrid Eggleston Nonfiction Award and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2021. My first feature film, The Lebanese Burger Mafia, premiered at Hot Docs in 2023 and won the Northwest Fest Audience Choice Award. My storytelling career began in 2006 as an arts reporter and film critic. I’ve since become a generalist, writing on food, science, business and everything in between. My stories have earned 14 National Magazine Awards nominations (and three wins); the 2017 Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting; and selection in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Canadian Essays anthologies. In addition, I’ve edited for magazines, including as Edify‘s editor-in-chief, hosted podcasts by Canadaland and others, given many keynote addresses, and coauthored/ghostwrote three memoirs, including the national bestseller Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter’s Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray. Since 2019, I’ve co-produced three TV documentaries with CBC, including Digging in the Dirt, a raw look at the psychological toll of oil and gas labour that was nominated for best long-form documentary by the Alberta Film & Television Awards; The Last Baron, a comedic saga about a rogue burger chain, which was nominated for 5 Rosies; and this fall’s Making Kayfabe, a verité film about my immersion into the indie pro wrestling world. If there's a throughline in my career, it's nonfiction storytelling, in whatever format that may be.…I’m a writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, podcast producer and educator. I’ve worked for such outlets as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, CBC TV, and The Guardian, and appeared on Al Jazeera, WNYC, and other networks. My book How Muslims Shaped the Americas, won the 2022 Wilfrid Eggleston Nonfiction Award and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2021. My first feature film, The Lebanese Burger Mafia, premiered at Hot Docs in 2023 and won the Northwest Fest Audience Choice Award. My storytelling career began in 2006 as an arts reporter and film critic. I’ve since become a generalist, writing on food, science, business and everything in between. My stories have earned 14 National Magazine Awards nominations (and three wins); the 2017 Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting; and selection in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Canadian Essays anthologies. In addition, I’ve edited for magazines, including as Edify‘s editor-in-chief, hosted podcasts by Canadaland and others, given many keynote addresses, and coauthored/ghostwrote three memoirs, including the national bestseller Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter’s Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray. Since 2019, I’ve co-produced three TV documentaries with CBC, including Digging in the Dirt, a raw look at the psychological toll of oil and gas labour that was nominated for best long-form documentary by the Alberta Film & Television Awards; The Last Baron, a comedic saga about a rogue burger chain, which was nominated for 5 Rosies; and this fall’s Making Kayfabe, a verité film about my immersion into the indie pro wrestling world. If there's a throughline in my career, it's nonfiction storytelling, in whatever format that may be.WWWW…