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Chicago-based filmmaker Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1969. Alshaibi is the director of one feature length film, Muhammad and Jane, and more than thirty short films and videos some of which star performance artist Echo Transgression and Polish actor and filmmaker Piotr Tokarski. He has also produced and directed numerous music videos for a variety of musicians, including Bobby Conn, Panicsville and Magic is Küntmaster. Alshaibi is the founder and Director of the Z Film Festival and his short films have toured with author Jack Sargeant's underground film programs.

Usama Alshaibi is interviewed in fellow Chicagoan Studs Terkel's book Hope Dies Last.

Since early 2004, he has been working on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs. The film is produced by Alshaibi's wife, fellow filmmaker Kristie Alshaibi; as well as Benzfilm Group, and executive produced by Terkel. It is slated to be released in 2006.

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