Working across documentary and animation, she has traveled throughout the Middle East, using her sketchbook and camera to document the experiences of displaced communities. Her animated documentary short films, Uncle Ma'an, Um Abdullah, and Shadow of Paradise have screened internationally, including at DOC NYC, Chicago International Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Aesthetica Short Film, Tricky Women/Tricky Realities in Austria and The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. She was a 2018 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York and in 2021 she received a New York State Council for the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Video/Film.

Sahar studied painting and graphic design at the University of California, Davis and was a Jules Engel Endowed Scholar in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts, where she graduated with her MFA in Film/Video. She has been a part of academic environments in Southern California, British Columbia, New York and Connecticut, teaching and producing various aspects of film production, mentoring and inspiring students to pursue their own voices through the creative exploration of cinema. She is currently working on a documentary film and photography project exploring halal food and the diaspora, while also developing an animated feature about an abandoned girl navigating a post-apocalyptic world. Her work will be featured in the 2026 Artists’ Biennial group exhibition at Oregon Contemporary this spring.