Omar
Shoukri

His path into media began in 1994 with an internship at SAT.1 regional national television in Germany. After his studies he returned to broadcast, working across short- and long-form series, reports and documentary films, before the work took him across continents: Los Angeles (Admusic), Berlin (Arte), Dubai (MBC, where he contributed to "The Investor", the region's The Apprentice, and to the Ramadan travel series "Khawater"), New York (McKinsey & Co.) and London (CNN International and BBC Arabic, and a performance at the Victoria & Albert Museum).

In Abu Dhabi he served as assistant director and managed post-production on a National Geographic production in collaboration with ADEK. He has delivered corporate media training across the Middle East with the BBC Academy. In Augsburg he taught and produced learning media with bbw on a programme funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), including 360-degree immersive e-learning for Netzwerk Q 4.0, and with GIZ he has delivered TVET (technical and vocational education and training) and corporate trainings internationally.

As an exhibiting artist, his film The Water in Ourselves (2016) has been presented at the Transart Institute in Berlin and New York, the NYUAD Institute, Imagine Science Film Festival Abu Dhabi and the Goethe-Institut Barcelona. His directorial debut Three Short Tales of Forgiveness (2019), a NYU Abu Dhabi production, travelled to festivals in Germany, the United Kingdom, the UAE, India and the United States.

At NYU Abu Dhabi he served as technical instructor and event manager, mentoring students from eighty nationalities, and developed an electronic music performance course whose students performed across NYUAD events and open studios. At the Higher Colleges of Technology he taught across three Bachelor programmes until August 2026 and co-developed the AI in Digital Media course. His doctoral research on Expressive Arts and Generative AI in Societal Transformation and Learning asks what creative practice can do in conditions of technological and social rupture.