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Alexandra Ozeri
Screenwriters Lab
2025-2026 Fellow
DIMHI
Dimhi is a television anthology series based on true stories of Jews and the historical persecution they faced. Each season takes place in a different country in varying time periods, following characters living the Jewish experience of that time. Seasons would cover the Ahmad Gragn Campaigns and Slave Raids & Banditry in Ethiopia, the Farhud in Iraq, the Allahdad and Shiraz pogrom in Iran, Balfour riots in Egypt, and Moroccan Jews under the Vichy French regime. The first season starts in 1930s Yemen, telling the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Nadra, who is forced into marriage to avoid the orphan decree. Under their dhimmi status, Nadra’s sister is legally kidnapped, and we go along her brave and dangerous years-long journey in her attempt to get her sister back. The season ends with the 1947 massacre of Jews in Aden.
Alexandra Ozeri is a writer and satirist currently residing in Los Angeles. She grew up in New York City and is of mixed Yemenite heritage on her father's side and Ashkenazi Holocaust survivors on her mother's side. She has written for Redcutress, The Belladonna, The Foreigner, Flexx, Robot Butt, Disney, Dreamworks, as well as the Jewish Journal, and has had her writing reported on by Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Miami Herald, Yahoo, Teen Vogue, Bustle, Metro UK and more. She received her education at the University of Maryland, Tel Aviv University, and UCLA. She is also an educator and has over fifteen years of diverse teaching experience.
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