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Osamah Sami Osamah Sami i(8368883 works by)
Born: Established: 1982 Abadan Island,
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Iran,
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Middle East, Asia,
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Gender: Male
Heritage: Iranian ; Australian
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1 1 form y separately published work icon House of Gods Osamah Sami , Shahin Shafaei , Osamah Sami , Blake Ayshford , Shahin Shafaei , Sarah Bassiuoni , Australia : Matchbox Pictures Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2023 25573113 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'Set in Western Sydney and produced by Matchbox Pictures, House of Gods is a gripping tale of faith, family, secrets and lies, which takes audiences behind the walls of an iman’s family and the Australian Arab/Iraqi community he leads. The series explores the personal cost of influence and ambition as the Imam, Sheikh Mohammad, and his family grapple with newfound power, politics and privilege.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 4 form y separately published work icon The Clearing Matt Cameron , Elise McCredie , Osamah Sami , ( dir. Jeffrey Walker et. al. )agent Australia : Wooden Horse Walt Disney Productions , 2023 24514111 2023 series - publisher film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Tennessine Osamah Sami , ( dir. Amin Palangi ) Australia : Palangi Productions Breathless Films , 2021 21674040 2021 single work film/TV

'Arash (Osamah Sami, Ali’s Wedding, SFF 2017) defies his family’s wishes and travels from Iran to Australia. While he is ostensibly in Sydney to study, his main motivation is to be with the love of his life, Nazanin (Faezeh Alavi). Nazanin fails to fetch him at the airport as scheduled but all is forgiven when she whisks him away for a romantic weekend in a cabin in the country. But there are bemusing signs at the cabin that a jetlagged and confused Arash struggles with. The arrival of Nasser (Robert Rabiah), Nazanin’s academic supervisor, further elevates Arash’s paranoia, setting the scene for a showdown.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival. 

1 y separately published work icon Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , Janice Muller , 2018 13738914 2018 single work drama

'What does it mean to be a good Muslim boy? You probably shouldn’t gawk at girls in bikinis or fake a medical degree. If you must be an actor, you shouldn’t play a gay man on television, or Saddam Hussein in a post 9/11 American musical. And you definitely, definitely shouldn’t leave an arranged bride at the altar.

'Meet Osamah Sami. He’s done all of the above. Interesting, considering his father is one of the leading Islamic clerics in Australia, having pulled his family out of war-torn Iran to settle in suburban Melbourne.

'But when his kindly and unorthodox dad dies suddenly during a trip to Iran, Osamah must grapple with an inscrutable and corrupt bureaucracy in his fight to bring his father’s body home to Australia – all the while looking back on his life in a haunting, hilarious and heart-wrenching retrospective.'

Source: Queensland Theatre Company.

1 9 form y separately published work icon Ali’s Wedding Andrew Knight , Osamah Sami , ( dir. Jeffrey Walker ) Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd , 2017 8368900 2017 single work film/TV

'After a reckless lie sets off a catastrophic chain of events, Ali, the son of a Muslim cleric, finds himself caught between his sense of duty to his family and following his heart. Based on real events, Ali’s Wedding is an irreverent, warm-hearted comedy, and an affectionate and vivid portrait of Islamic life in Australia. ' (Source: Screen Australia)

1 Pauline Hanson, Please See Ali's Wedding. It Will Be Worth Your while Osamah Sami , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 October 2017;

'My film is Australia’s first Muslim romcom. I hope it will give the senator a more positive perspective on our lives.'

1 y separately published work icon Mosque, Mourning & Girls True Stories Podcast S2 Ep4 : Mosque, Mourning & Girls Osamah Sami , Sydney : SBS , 2016 16963471 2016 single work autobiography podcast 'Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new obsession.' (Source: SBS True Stories website)
1 3 y separately published work icon Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books , 2015 8735194 2015 single work autobiography

'Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami's true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/​Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, family and following one's dream.' (Source: TROVE)

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