EDMONTON, AB - The Lebanese Burger Mafia, a crowd-funded documentary exposing an improbable connection between fast-food and Middle Eastern refugees, has been nominated for a prestigious James Beard Media Award. Often referred to as the Oscars of the…

Article content An exciting snapshot of our local creative zeitgeist, the winners of the annual Edmonton Arts Prize will be announced May 1. Each award is for a specific creative work in one of four disciplines, with generous rewards. “The shortlists…

CBC Gem’s newly released documentary, Making Kayfabe: The Private Lives of Indie Wrestlers, is a different version of Here Comes the Boom in a wrestling setting. Instead of raising money through mixed martial arts like Kevin James did in 2012’s Here…

Canadian filmmaker and journalist Omar Mouallem has worked with outlets as diverse as The Guardian and Rolling Stone, but nothing could prepare him for professional wrestling. And he didn’t just try it, he filmed it, for a documentary, Making…

The Lebanese Burger Mafia is look at the history of the Burger Barron franchise. It makes no sense, but also interesting and quirky.

Omar Mouallem says few know that what became Stampede Wrestling held its first-ever event in Edmonton in 1948. “It was founded as Klondike Wrestling in Edmonton,” Mouallem told Taproot. “It had its first show at the Edmonton Sales Pavilion (at…

Ever since the Burger Baron name was orphaned under various crazy legal proceedings, just who has the rights to it got lost to time.

Omar Mouallem's documentary The Lebanese Burger Mafia explores the secret sauce behind an eclectic Alberta fast food chain.

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Listen to this episode from Film Rage on Spotify. This weeks Verbal Masturbation session is with the director of The Lebanese Burger Mafia Omar Mouallem. You can catch his film this week at The Calgary International Film Festival CIFF…

By Nimra Amir, September 25 2023— To unexpected visitors, the Burger Baron might seem like the average restaurant, but heir of a Burger Baron franchise, Omar Mouallem, in his feature documentary The Lebanese Burger Mafia — screening at the Calgary…

« À la fin des années 1950, l’entrepreneur irlandais-américain Jack McDonnell déménage sa famille à Calgary dans l’espoir de créer un empire de la restauration rapide et de battre l’autre...

2023 NorthwestFest award winners include The Lebanese Burger Mafia, Immediate Family, and 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture.

Docmakers and industry professionals from Western Canada are hauling out a bumper crop of adventurous docs for audiences and buyers at Hot Docs.

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A review of The Lebanese Burger Mafia, a documentary by Omar Mouallem, screening at the 2023 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.

A deeply personal connection to the Burger Baron franchise led filmmaker Omar Mouallem on a meaty voyage of discovery

Book Club: Author Omar Mouallem talks more about his illuminating new book, Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, examining the kaleidoscope that is Islam in the Americas and how this diversity has impacted host communities.