[2] Ayub was born in Iraq; her family came to Austria as refugees when she was a child.

), Ayub's feature-length directorial debut, followed her father Omar as he visited Kurdish relatives in Duhok after fleeing the city in 1991.

The documentary screened at the 2016 Diagonale Film Festival, where Ayub was awarded the Best Camera prize.

[6] Mond (Moon), Ayub's 2024 fiction feature about a former martial artist traveling to Jordan to train the daughters of a wealthy family, premiered at the 77th Locarno Film Festival in competition for the Golden Leopard.

[3][6] The film received the Special Jury Award as well as the Europe Cinemas Label prize, and a special mention from the Ecumenical jury.