Nehad Khader

Nehad Khader is an experienced professional in the fields of festival direction and editorial management, currently serving as Festival Director and Program Director at BlackStar since July 2015. Prior to this, Nehad held the position of Managing Editor at the Institute for Palestine Studies from May 2013 to July 2015, and was an Editor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from July 2011 to May 2013, where responsibilities included analyzing Middle East events and editing publications related to the Arab World uprisings. Earlier experience includes working as an Archivist, Cataloguer, and Translator at Georgetown University, where over 500 posters were cataloged into the university library database. Nehad holds a Master of Arab Studies from Georgetown University, focusing on authoritarianism, reform, media, gender, and Arabic literature.