Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Sabbagh has been a major pioneer of independent cinema in Saudi Arabia since the 2013. His debut feature, titled: Barakah Yoqabil Barakah, premiered first at Berlin Film Festival in 2016. Becoming the first long form film from Saudi Arabia to screen in the festival.
Sabbagh is also known locally by the documentary The Story of Hamza Shehata (2013).
Sabbagh holds a master"s degree of science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he studied storytelling filmmaking. He speaks fluent English and Arabic.
He lives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.