Omar Mouallem

Omar Mouallem is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. He has contributed to Wired, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. His essays and features have garnered him recognition from the Canadian National Magazine Awards and Alberta Literary Awards. He co-authored a book about the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire titled Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray. His book Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, a travelogue centred around 13 mosques, was named one of the best books of 2021 by The Globe and Mail. It was awarded the 2022 Wilfrid Eggelston Nonfiction Award by the Alberta Literary Awards.