Omar Mouallem

Omar Mouallem is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian , The New Yorker , Rolling Stone, Maclean's, WIRED , and more. He coauthored the national bestseller Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray , and codirected Digging in the Dirt , a documentary about mental health in the Alberta oil patch. In 2020, he founded Pandemic University School of Writing. And in 2023, he released a feature-length documentary...See more

Omar Mouallem is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian , The New Yorker , Rolling Stone, Maclean's, WIRED , and more. He coauthored the national bestseller Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray , and codirected Digging in the Dirt , a documentary about mental health in the Alberta oil patch. In 2020, he founded Pandemic University School of Writing. And in 2023, he released a feature-length documentary about Burger Baron, the popular Alberta restaurant chain, called The Lebanese Burger Mafia . He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his family. Follow him on Twitter @OmarMouallem and find him at OmarMouallem.com. See less