MBA Student, in Finance, Arizona State University, 2025
Masters of Arts, in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership, Arizona State University, 2022
Bachelors of Arts, in Film and Media Production, Arizona State University, 2021
Founder of Moya Pictures Company
Founder of SaudiDonors
Post Double Lungs Transplant Recipient Twice
(PTLD) Survivor
Best Speaker in Behance Jeddah, 2016
Best Exhibitor in Behance Al-Khobar, 2017
Participated in “Colors Of Saudi Arabia”, 2017
Won Two Silver Medals for Basketball and Tennis at The Transplant Games of America, 2018
Participated in Guinness World Record for Most Transplant Recipients Gathered at One Time
Best Achievement in Producing at ASU, Fall 2020
Won four medals, one gold, one silver and two bronze, at The Transplant Games of America in San Diego, CA, 2022
Producer, Actor, Writer, Director, Photographer and Stand Up Comedian
I’m Omar Hashem, a twenty-Five year old guy and the only child for his parents. I started photography, a hobby of mine, when I was thirteen years old. I choose photography because I figured that it will open up new opportunities for me in life. For example, I can capture the happiness of every person, I can meet new people by volunteering as a photographer and also, I can gain money out of it.
I started to develop my skills by volunteering and taking photos at events. Then, people started to appreciate what I was doing so they began to pay me money for photography. Also, I worked for three summers just to be able to upgrade my camera and lenses. So, I made a rule for myself that all the money that I’m going to get, I’ll spend it on this hobby only.
When I was in high school, I decided that I wanted to major in Filmmaking. Sadly, my parents were against that so I attended KFUPM university to major in Industrial Engineering. Suddenly, after I finished the orientation year I got a rare disease in my lungs called PVOD. The doctors had told me that I should undergo a Double Lungs Transplant within one year or I will pass away. I ended up doing the surgery on August 20, 2016, at Duke Hospital in North Carolina.
In 2017 my parents and I decided that it’s time to return back to college. But, this time they allowed me to study Film Making, so I applied to ASU, and I got accepted for the fall 2018 semester. After I arrived in AZ, I figured out that I got a PTLD tumor but thank god I started chemotherapy, and now I’m free from it.
In 2019 my body decided to refuse the lungs and I went through something called Chronic Rejection, that was in the fall semester of 2019. It was a hard journey and my situation was getting worse as everyday passed. Until the doctors decided that I’m in need of another transplant which I had on the 10th of Jan, 2020.
I don’t know what will happen next but I’m confident with what The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
“How wonderful is the case of a believer; there is good for him in everything and this applies only to a believer. If prosperity attends him, he expresses gratitude to Allah and that is good for him; and if adversity befalls him, he endures it patiently and that is better for him”.
As I Always Say:
My Parents Planed, I wrote, But GOD Signed.