[1] He is best known as the director of critically acclaimed film Zinzana: Rattle the Cage and Netflix's first Egyptian television series Paranormal.
[2] Al Ansari was born in 1987 in Abu Dhabi, UAE to an Emirati father and Kuwaiti mother.
Al Ansari studied music at California State University, Long Beach before entering cinema.
[4] During this period, he moved to Africa and attended the Maisha Film Lab in Uganda, a non-profit training initiative for emerging East African film-makers.
[3] Ansari made his feature debut film Zinzana: Rattle the Cage in 2015.