Rola Nashef is an American director, screenwriter, producer and multimedia artist based in Detroit.
Her father Franco is from Maghdouché, where her mother Salima is from Deir Mimas; both small Christian villages in the south of Lebanon.
In 1978, her family fled the Lebanese Civil War and immigrated to the United States where they settled in Lansing, Michigan where her father worked as a skilled tradesmen at General Motors.
She then attended Michigan State University, Madonna University and Oakland Community College where she studied political science, marketing research, paralegal studies, sociology, accounting, art and photography, before graduating from the Motion Picture Institute in [1997] with a degree in Directing and Producing.
[11][12] Nashef worked and served as a multimedia artist on Facing Identity, a permanent installation in the Arab American National Museum.