Obai Sukarأُبي سكّر
Creative director, music producer, sound designer and acoustics engineer. 25 years in Arabic media, from Spacetoon's dubbing stages to a channel with 781,000 subscribers.
This waveform is my mix of The Eternal Parade, Omantel's national animation film. Press it to hear it.
Which role are you hiring for?
Creative Directorمدير إبداعيDirected the TechTown opening film. Co-Founder and Creative Director at NHJ.
Music Producerمنتج موسيقيProposed sonic identity for trustangle. Children's songs with 34M and 26M views.
Sound Designerمصمم صوتSound designer and mixer on Cloud Kumo, a Silver Medal film. Directed the sound design work and mixed The Eternal Parade.
Audio & Acoustics Engineerمهندس صوت وصوتياتStudies from client CAD to contractor package. Field measurement in REW.
Broadcast & Voice Directorمدير بث ومخرج أداء صوتيFounded Karazah, 781,000 subscribers. Co-founded Radio Al-Kul. Ran audio at Spacetoon.
IT Director & Systems Builderمدير تقني ومطوّر أنظمةIT Director for 18 care communities. Built the production systems behind this work.Creative Director
I co-founded NHJ and lead its creative work across film, identity and events. I started in sound, so I plan picture and sound together from the first draft, and on my own films I often take the final mix as well.
- 2026
- Co-Founder and Creative Director, NHJ, since July
- Director
- and also sound designer and mixer, on the TechTown opening film
The Seeds of Tomorrow
- Brief
- Open the doors of TechTown, Damascus, with one film for the grand opening event.
- Idea
- The brand's diamond becomes real light: a gem on a desk, in a palm, over a café table. Three strangers each carry one through their working day, until they meet on the roof and the building switches on.
- My part
- Direction, sound design and mix. Produced by NHJ with MediaVerse studio.
Watch it with sound
Director, sound design and mix, creative director: Obai Sukar. Director of photography: Fateh Raslan. Editing and VFX: Abdullah Raslan. Voice: Abu Alfarouq. TechTown, 2026.
Techathon, identity and film
Opening 16 seconds of the brand film. Directed through notes, voice treated in Nuendo, and every cut lands within 8 ms of a strong beat. Delivered 2026.
FORTIX exhibition stand
Concept author. Concept for Syber, Nowa and TechTown, 2026.
Inside the stand
The same concept from the inside.
Golfy, One Swing
One golf shot carries the whole 84-second film: the ball never leaves the screen as it travels through the club's past and present. My storyboard, 15 shots with camera, move, light and sound for each. Concept stage, 2026.
Music Producer
A trustangle cue drawn as blades, one for each slice of its waveform.
I work the way a director works with a composer: I set the brief, choose by ear and sign off the mix.
- 34M
- views on the Karazah exercise song, 26M on «حمامي»
- 6 notes
- one for each trustangle business unit, then the company
A sonic identity you can read
A proposal for trustangle, 2026. Five business units sit on the company's wheel, so each one takes a note and the sixth resolves on the company. Press play and watch it run.
Also
- Album «بسم الله»Co-producer and musical direction. Studiona Records, 2014. Watch
- Earth Song, Davenie BlackwellMusic producer and mix. 2022. Watch
- M.O.S.I.C and Produced By ObaiMy own label and production imprint.
- Spacetoon songs and themesAiroka (32 songs) and children's song volumes, recording and mix, 2000 to 2010.
Sound Designer
The Eternal Parade. Omantel, 2022.
Twenty-five years of dubbing stages, film mixes and brand films. I design and mix in Nuendo and Pro Tools, for animation, documentary and motion graphics.
- Cloud Kumo
- Sound designer and mixer. The film took the Silver Medal at the 2016 Student Academy Awards. Oscars.org
- Eternal Parade
- Directed the sound design work and mixed «الموكب الخالد», Omantel's national animation film, 2022
The battle scene from The Eternal Parade as a spectrogram. Time runs left to right, pitch rises.
«الموكب الخالد» (The Eternal Parade)
Directed the sound design work and mixed the film at SS Media Production Studios, Michigan. Omantel, 2022. Full film
Cloud Kumo
Sound mixer and sound designer. Directed by Yvonne Ng, music by Yasuhiko Fukuoka. City College of New York, 2016. Silver Medal, Student Academy Awards. 50 seconds of a 14-minute film.
Discover Your Power
Sound designer. A short by the Al Kiyumi Bros, Dawood and Yasser. YouTube
Realism Beats («الواقعية أفضل»)
Sound effects. A short by the Al Kiyumi Bros. First Prize, student short film, Gulf Film Festival. YouTube · Source
«مجرد سؤال» (Just a Question)
Sound effects and mix. Animation by Animania Group, directed by Mohammad Al-Saheb, with the voices of Nidal Sijari and Samar Kokash. 2008. YouTube
Golf Saudi, Digital Journey
My own opening 18.5 seconds of sound design for this motion film. NHJ, delivered 2026.
Selected films
- DoomsdayFilm on the 2023 Türkiye and Syria earthquake, directed by Zaid Mastou. Sound designer.
- Five Years of Lofty VisionOman Ministry of Housing, 2025. Sound designer and mixer.
- Earth as a HumanQomrah TV, 2016. Sound designer and mixer.
- «الزبالين»Film by Michael Shaghoury, 2012. Sound design and mix.
- Thread of Life («خيط الحياة»)Sound designer and mixer. The film won the Golden Award at the Cairo International Children's Film Festival, 2008. Source
Audio & Acoustics Engineer
Al-Rifai Mosque, Damascus: dome to scale from the architect's CAD, with sound rays from across the floor. An illustration.
I take a room from the client's own CAD to a package a contractor can build, and I measure whenever I can get into the room. When a measurement disagrees with my model, the measurement wins and the study changes.
- 32 sweeps
- across 17 stations in one Damascus hall
- 3 rooms
- MediaVerse studios, contractor package in both languages, partly built
The room told me I was wrong
A large mosque hall in Damascus. I ran the measurement session myself in REW and compared it with my model. At 500 Hz the model said 1.38 s and the hall said 2.28 s, so I rebuilt the study on the measurement.
T20 by octave, mean of usable sweeps at SNR 25 dB or better. Measured 3 September 2026. 125 Hz has no usable T20 and is left out.
Design targets, MediaVerse
Three studios for TechTown. Eyring prediction against the target for each room. Predicted, not yet measured, because the rooms are not finished.
| Room | Predicted RT, s | Target, s |
|---|---|---|
| Voice-over booth | 0.162 | 0.15–0.20 |
| Control room | 0.281 | 0.28–0.30 |
| Video and podcast | 0.196 | 0.30. Runs drier than target; accepted per curtain state. |
Package: drawings and elevations from the CAD, a 177-line bill of quantities, a contractor guide in Arabic and English, and build gates that check the shipped PDFs rather than the working files.
Also
- Al-Rifai MosqueAbout 17,000 m³ in volume over a 1,417 m² floor. Basement PA designed by me and installed by RAFI Group, 2026. For the main hall I built a listening test from the study, so the committee can hear the options.
- Umayyad Mosque, DamascusAudio-system assessment across halls, courtyards and minarets, based on simulation.
- SUKAR acoustic engineMy own offline simulator: SPL coverage, RT60, room modes, NC, STC and DXF import, in Arabic and English. ISO 9613-1 air absorption, ISO 717-1 and ASTM E413 insulation, IEC 60268-16 STI by the indirect method. In-house use.
- Live and installed soundAV technician, Swank AV at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, 2004 to 2006.
- Standards I work toISO 3382 measurement gates, IEC 60268-16, ISO 9613-1, ISO 717-1, ASTM E413, NC and NR, AVIXA A102.01.
Broadcast & Voice Director
I cast and direct voices, and I have run three of the places they go out on: a dubbing department, a radio station and a children's channel. On Karazah I produce, record and mix every song, direct the voices and commission the animation.
- 781,000
- subscribers on Karazah, the Arabic children's channel I founded
- 2019
- Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award to the channel, best Arabic work in digital media. 2019 cycle, presented in 2023 after the Covid delay. Dubai Media Office
views across 1,330 videos.
Read off YouTube on 7 November 2026: 306.7M long-form and 42.9M Shorts. Karazah on YouTube
Spacetoon, 2000 to 2010
I worked there across the decade, before and after studying sound in Los Angeles, from sound engineering to running the audio department: casting and directing voices across male, female and child performers, then recording and mixing to picture.
- Detective Conan, seasons 5 to 8
- Beyblade
- Gundam Wing
- Samurai Jack
- Samurai 7
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Black Cat
- Rainbow Fish
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Space Power station identity
Radio Al-Kul, 2012 to 2014
Co-founder and director. Two studios in Istanbul streamed to activists inside Syria, who rebroadcast the signal on FM, so people could listen on a battery radio when there was no power or television. I trained the editors and sound engineers.
IT Director & Systems Builder
711 commits on a 24-hour clock. Oldest at the centre, newest at the rim.
I ran IT for 18 care communities under HIPAA. I now run my creative work on the same discipline, with automated checks that open the delivered files, so a failed check can block a push to my server.
- 18
- assisted living and memory care communities across Michigan, IT Director, 2022 to 2025
- 711
- commits since April 2026 across six of my production repos
How a piece gets made here
- Film systemCode-rendered brand films with a version ledger, for NHJ.
- score-craftMusic as notes in code, rendered to MIDI, stems and mix, for handoff to Nuendo.
- SUKARMy own acoustic simulator, built in JavaScript.
- IT Director, Synergy Senior ManagementCybersecurity, CRM, software and vendor relations for the group. Census dashboard, endpoint protection and MFA after a 2024 audit.
Nuendo · Pro Tools · Waves · REW · Blender · Remotion · ffmpeg · Python · JavaScript · nginx · Git
Obai Sukar
obai@obaisukar.com · (810) 445-8548 · linkedin.com/in/obaisukar · imdb.com/name/nm8455296 · Michigan, USA and Damascus, Syria
Creative director, music producer, sound designer and acoustics engineer. 25 years in Arabic media.
- Directed the TechTown opening film, including its sound design and mix.
- Co-Founder and Creative Director at NHJ since July 2026, across film, identity and events.
- 25 years in sound first, so picture and music are planned as one thing.
- Founder, artistic director and music producer of Karazah: songs with 34M and 26M views, on a channel of 781,000 subscribers.
- Developed a proposed sonic identity for trustangle: six notes, one for each business unit and the company.
- Sets the brief, chooses by ear and signs off the mix.
- Sound designer and mixer on Cloud Kumo, Silver Medal film at the 2016 Student Academy Awards.
- Directed the sound design work and mixed «الموكب الخالد», Omantel's national animation film, and sound on Discover Your Power and Just a Question.
- 25 years across dubbing, film, series and motion graphics, in Nuendo and Pro Tools.
- Takes rooms from the client's CAD to a contractor package: MediaVerse studios, a 177-line bill of quantities, drawings in two languages.
- Measures in the field with REW: 32 sweeps across 17 stations corrected my own model in one Damascus hall.
- Built SUKAR, my own acoustic simulator.
- Founded Karazah: 781,000 subscribers, 349M views, Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award.
- Ran the Spacetoon audio department: voice casting and direction for major anime and children's series.
- Co-founded and directed Radio Al-Kul, interviewed by NPR and Al Jazeera.
- IT Director for 18 assisted living and memory care communities across Michigan, under HIPAA.
- Built production systems for film, music and acoustics, with automated gates checking the delivered files.
- Runs independent automated reviews, each tested on a planted defect first.
The record
Syria. Film, identity and events across the group's clients. Directed the TechTown opening film and built the agency's code-rendered film system.
Arabic children's edutainment. 781,000 subscribers, 349M views, 1,330 videos. Artistic director and music producer: produced, recorded and mixed every song, and directed the voices. Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award, 2019 cycle.
Rights-holder of the Karazah catalogue.
Independent practice: sound design, music production, audio branding and acoustic studies for film, series, brands, studios and mosques.
Flint, Michigan. IT lead for 18 assisted living and memory care communities: cybersecurity, CRM, software, vendor relations, HIPAA.
Istanbul. Built the studios and the stream that partners inside Syria rebroadcast on FM. Interviewed by NPR and Al Jazeera, 2014.
Four Seasons Beverly Hills.
Damascus and Kuala Lumpur, before and after studying in Los Angeles. Arabic dubbing and audio post for major anime and children's series: voice casting, direction, recording, mix.
Awards to the work
- Student Academy Awards 2016, Silver Medal to the film Cloud Kumo by Yvonne Ng. Sound designer and mixer. Oscars.org
- Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award, best Arabic work in digital media and social channels, Karazah Channel. 2019 cycle, presented November 2023 after the Covid delay. Dubai Media Office
- Cairo International Children's Film Festival, Golden Award to the film Thread of Life, 2008. Sound designer and mixer. Soundlister
- Gulf Film Festival, First Prize, student short film, to Realism Beats («الواقعية أفضل»). Sound effects. Wikipedia
Education
- Studied audio recording at the Los Angeles Film School.
Languages
- Arabic and English.
Press
- NPR, 2014, Al Jazeera, 2014, The Journal, 2014, on Radio Al-Kul.
Talk to me
obai@obaisukar.comObai Sukar, أُبي سكّر. Credits on this page state my role on each piece. Client work is shown with its team and status.