Omar Fadel is an American composer for film, television, and video games. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, whose scores frequently feature him on a wide array of instruments, including guitar, piano, cello, drums and percussion. Omar's work can be heard in numerous films, television shows and video games, namely the global game franchise '' Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, The Dictator'', the

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- nominated and Peabody-winning film ''The Judge'', the Emmy- and Peabody-nominated film ''

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'', and the

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-nominated film ''Day One.''

Career

Born in Houston, and raised between Texas and

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, Omar's global exposure is heard throughout his music. He is a graduate of the

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where he studied film, music production and composition. Following graduation, Omar re-located to Los Angeles where he began working with Police drummer

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. Shortly thereafter, Omar began scoring shorts and feature films. In 2010, Omar composed the score to the award-winning feature film ''The Taqwacores,'' which premiered to a standing ovation at the

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. He then went on to score the critically acclaimed

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documentary '' Just Like Us''. In 2011, Omar was selected to score the first ever Arabic-language, American studio feature film, ''The United'', produced by Walt Disney Motion Pictures. This was followed by Omar scoring the award-winning documentary ''In Search of Oil and Sand''. In 2012, Omar collaborated with composer Erran Baron Cohen on the score for ''The Dictator''. In 2016, Omar scored the

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-nominated short film ''

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''. In 2017, he scored Erika Cohn's documentary ''The Judge'', which premiered at the

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and was eventually nominated for an Emmy and won a

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. In 2018, Omar composed the score for '' Yomeddine'', which premiered in competition at the

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and won the François Chalais Award. In 2020, Omar scored the Peabody-nominated and critically acclaimed documentary ''

''. Also in 2020, Omar had the honor of composing the score for the series '' Six Windows in the Desert'', which was the first ever Saudi Arabian original programming for

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. In 2021, Omar entered the world of live streaming content composing the music for the widely popular

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-themed show ''

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''. In addition to his film work, Omar has scored several television shows, most notably, the Mike Judge-produced ABC animated series ''

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'', and NBC's ''

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.'' Omar's music is also frequently licensed to unscripted television programming including: ''

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,'' and ''

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.'' In 2013, Omar entered the world of video games collaborating with composer

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on one of the industry's largest franchises, '' Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag''. In 2016, Omar scored the award-winning virtual reality game '' The Argos File'', which competed at the

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. That same year, the

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awarded Omar a prestigious Fellowship at their Film Music Composer's Lab.

Select Credits

(Selective works) *2008: ''

'' *2008: ''The Colours of Exile'' *2009: ''Camouflage'' *2009: ''

'' *2009: ''

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'' *2010: '' Just Like Us'' *2010: ''

The Taqwacores ''The Taqwacores'' is the debut novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, depicting a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene. The title is a portmanteau of taqwa, an Islamic concept of love and fear for Allah, and Hardcore punk, Hardcore, the punk rock su ...

'' *2010: ''Maydoum'' *2011: ''

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'' *2012: ''In Search of Oil and Sand'' *2012: ''Rafea: Solar Mama'' *2013: '' Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' *2014: "In the Image" *2014: "

Meet the Patels ''Meet the Patels'' is a 2014 American romantic comedy documentary film directed by siblings Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel. The film explores the expectations surrounding marriage in the Patels' first-generation Indian immigrant family and in w ...

" *2014: "Undying Dreams" *2015: "

" *2017: "The Judge" *2018: "The Advocates" *2018: "Kiss Me not (Balash Tebusni)" *2018: " Yomeddine" *2019: "

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" *2020: " Six Windows in the Desert" *2020: "

" *2021: " A Hard Problem" *2021: "

References

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