Omar Mouallem

[1] The article partially inspired the 2020 documentary film “Eddy’s Kingdom”, for which Mouallem was a key interview.

[7] Mouallem directed and produced two documentaries, 2019’s Digging in the Dirt, a CBC coproduction about a mental health crises in the Alberta oil sands workforce, and 2021’s The Last Baron, a first-person film about the unlikely connection between Lebanon’s civil war and the Canadian fast-food chain Burger Baron.

[8] After premiering on CBC Gem, it gained notable popularity and it was heralded as one of the “best Canadian food documentaries” by enRoute magazine.

[9] Mouallem announced that the short film would be expanded into a feature documentary retitled The Lebanese Burger Mafia and released in 2023.

[10] Mouallem has contributed to YouthWrite, hosting a workshop during JustWrite in 2017 called Profiling Without Fear, covering how to capture the essence of a subject.