Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore the histories of labor movement and anticolonialism in the Arab world and its connections to Indigenous cosmovisions in the Americas, feminist internationalism, and new transformative possibilities. Saba’s debut feature A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Berlinale Forum. Her multidisciplinary works have shown at venues like Anthology Film Archives, ICA London, Havana Film Festival, Savvy Contemporary, and Arkipel Jakarta. Saba’s writing has appeared in Antipode, Critical Times, The Guardian, Public Source and the LA Progressive. Saba’s latest film Mahdi Amel in Gaza (2024) is screening in community centers, public spaces, and also festivals. Saba holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and is a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media.