| Director | Mahmoud Kaabour |
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The documentary details the lives of six Montreal Arab men, all with the first name "Osama":
* Osama (Sam) Shalabi, of Egyptian origin, a music composer who grew up in Atlantic Canada. He is a leading member of the Montreal-based instrumental band, Shalabi Effect. He composed the soundtrack for Being Osama. * Ossama al-Sarraf (better known as Sultan), a Palestinian Christian (specifically Gazan) Canadian DJ who wears dreadlocks. He is one half of the DJ duo, Sultan & Shepard. * Ossama el-Naggar, an Egyptian Canadian musical expert and importer of opera and classical music CDs living in Canada for over twenty years * Osama el-Demerdash, an Egyptian, who is very politically active regarding issues surrounding immigrant rights and deportation of refugees * Oussama al-Jundi, a Lebanese Canadian who runs a Muslim school in Montreal * Osama Dorias, an Iraqi Canadian and devout Muslim whose family fled Saddam Hussein's regime while he was still a young child. His father has recently returned to Iraq and portrayed as a university graduate and a basketball player, involved in organizing a Muslim basketball league in a Montreal suburb.
They all recount their experiences in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.