Working in documentary and animation, she has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East with her sketchbook and camera in hand, chronicling the plight of refugees who have fled. Her animated documentary short films, Uncle Ma'an, Um Abdullah, and Shadow of Paradise have screened 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 feature film and photography project about Halal food, while also developing an animated feature that follows the journey of an abandoned girl navigating a post-apocalyptic world.