Yasser Shahin
Office: Online (via email)
yaser.shahin@sjsu.edu
Yasser Shahin is a screenwriter, a published author, and co-writer of the book When Women Wrote
Hollywood. Yasser has an M.F.A. in Television and Screenwriting from Stephens College
and a B.A. in Film from Eastern Washington University where he taught screenwriting
and film courses and served on the graduating committee for the screenwriting capstone
final projects. Shahin writes in two languages Arabic and English. He worked with
Aljazeera for a few years as an assistant producer for many documentaries and T.V.
shows and translated many films from Arabic to English and vise versa for broadcast.
Yasser Shahin worked as a Middle East consultant for some Hollywood showrunners and
novelists as well as writing book reviews. Yasser Shahin is an Arabic poet and calligrapher,
he plays soccer, and appreciates a long lasting game of chess.