Zaher Saleh is a Palestinian-American musician and film director. Saleh was born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees and raised in Canfield, Ohio, where he graduated from college. At the age of 19, he was one of the finalists of the talent show Star Academy Arabia. In 2014, he produced the reality TV show Yalla NY about a group of friends from the Arab world looking for success in New York. Saleh wrote and directed the short film War Within (2017) about the main character's "struggle to reconcile his sexuality with his faith, his longing for acceptance from his family, and his journey to love and accept himself." In 2020, he released the song and video Kezbeh as its sequel. He lives in New York City.
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