Cherien Dabis

Director

Born: November 27, 1976 (age 49)
From: Omaha, Nebraska

Cherien Dabis (born November 27, 1976) is a Palestinian-American director, producer, and screenwriter. Her father is Palestinian and her mother is Jordanian. She spent many of her childhood summers in Jordan. Following a series of racist and Islamophobic incidents against her family when she was 14 years old, Dabis began wanting to change the way in which Arabs were portrayed in Western media.…

Filmography (12)

All That's Left of You (2025)
Director
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
Rula
This Changes Everything (2019)
Self
Villa Touma (2014)
Antoinette Touma
May in the Summer (2014)
Director
Not Another Word
Not Another Word (2013)
Director
Amreeka (2009)
Director
Make a Wish (2006)
Director
The D Word (2005)
Director
Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother (2004)
Director
The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Director
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
Director