His original intention was to study mechanical engineering, but after "a couple years," he reportedly "found it utterly intolerable."
As president of the university's international student union, he began an "awareness campaign" to combat Anti-Arab racism in the United States.
The campaign received considerable media attention and shortly afterwards, Bakhit has said, "four college kids attacked me on my way home late one night.
Yes, there’s Aladdin and Sinbad, but no one has ever done an animation or comic book based on the actual mythology from within the culture."
Over time, he has said, he became convinced that his calling was to create "characters and stories based in Arab tradition to spread the culture of tolerance."
Consequently, he dropped out of the master's program in human resource development, returned to Jordan, and, in 2006, registered his company, Aranim.
"[1] According to his account, once he had "started publishing my comic books, especially the ones that fight extremism and terrorism, I got attacked outside of my office by a couple of extremists.
"[1] Bakhit develops "the concepts, characters and stories" for his comic books, and has a team of writers and artists who translate his ideas into the final product.
We bought books on Amazon and literally taught ourselves how to program, using blogs and online communities for support."
The story is about a group of kids who wake up in a future post-apocalyptic Middle East to discover they have superpowers."
He also created Section 9, a comic "based on Jordan's real-life all-female counterterrorism team," an example of his belief "in empowering young women," and has created a character named Element Zero, "a special agent, kind of the Arabic Jason Bourne or Jack Bauer, who fights terrorism locally.
[6][7] During the Libyan Civil War, Bakhit and another TED Fellow, Adrian Hong, created "sort of a channel between Libya and Jordan to try to help some of the injured civilians come to Jordanian hospitals."