Bassam Tariq

Bassam Tariq is an American film director producer and screenwriter born in Karachi Pakistan He codirected and produced the Sundancefunded documentary These Birds Walk 2013 with Omar Mullick and he was named in Filmmakers 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2012 Tariqs works aim to uncover the diversity of Muslim life and experience In addition to filmmaking his diverse projects include blogging and writing cofounding a halal butcher shop and being a TED fellow Tariq lives in New York City with his wife and son