Mr. Chaker Ayadi received a Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then moved to Canada and lived in Vancouver, British Columbia. In Vancouver Mr. Chaker Ayadi worked as a free-lancer on film production sets. In the meantime he won a grant from the Canada Arts Council to write a feature screenplay. He also wrote, produced and directed a feature film called Next Station, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Mr. Chaker Ayadi was a part-time teacher of visual media in the Vancouver Community College, and a movie reviewer for two local newspapers. From Vancouver Mr. Chaker Ayadi took a teaching position the Dubai Women’s College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. While in Dubai Mr. Chaker Ayadi traveled to Tripoli, Lebanon, and made a documentary about the Palestinian refugee camp, called Nahr El-Bared. The documentary Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp was screened widely in film festivals such as the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, California, in the Emirates Film Festival in Abu Dhabi, the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha, Qatar, and the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. Mr. Chaker Ayadi currently teaches in the Department of Mass Communication in Qatar University and lives in Doha. In Qatar University, Mr. Chalker Ayadi has scripted and directed a graduation ceremony video for Qatar University and other short documentaries about students. He also hosts the Research Wednesday Podcast.