Rabab Haj Yahya Editor

Rabab Haj Yahya (She/Her) is a Palestinian-American documentary editor based in New York. She is best known for The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019), which earned her the Best Editing Award at Woodstock Film Festival (2018), and the Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix). More recently, she edited the Emmy-nominated Another Body, which received the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling at SXSW (2023), two episodes of the Emmy-Award Winning series Through Our Eyes (HBOMax, 2024), How We Get Free (HBOMax, 2023), The Legend of the Underground (Tribeca, 2021 | HBOMax), and the Emmy-nominated Apart (Hot Docs, 2021).

Rabab serves as a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab advisor (2023). She has also mentored for Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Chicken & Egg, and the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship (2022-2024). Fluent in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.