Question: What descent is the director of Jihad: A Story of the Others?

Context articles: Ghaleb Awwali
Steven Stalinsky
Sami Al-Arian indictments and trial
Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i
Destination: Morgue!
West African jihads
Dambazawa
Rahsaan Noor
Deeyah Khan
Jihad: A Story of the Others

Ghaleb Awwali was a senior Amal Movement and later Lebanese Islamic Jihad official who was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut, Lebanon in a Hezbollah controlled area, on 19 July 2004.
 Hezbollah blamed Israel and the Jund Ash Sham organization but offered no evidence, while others blamed Hezbollah itself, as Awwali had been active independently, and had been involved with Sunni Palestinian militant organizations.
 Ghaleb Awwali has been called a martyr of Lebanon and a martyr of Palestine.
 Hezbollah officials have claimed that the Zionist movement is behind the attacks and have claimed that Jund Ash Sham is linked to Israel, but have offered no evidence.
Steven Stalinsky is an expert on the Middle East, terrorism and terrorist use of the Internet, and encryption technologies, and has served as Executive Director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) since 1999.
 Stalinsky has briefed staff of the White House, State Department, Homeland Security, Justice Department, Office of Director of National Intelligence, Defense Department, Capitol Hill and other institutions.
 Since 2006, his research has focused on detailing and developing strategies against cyber jihad, describing how terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and others use the Internet, social media, and encryption for propaganda, recruiting, and hacking.
 He was an early advocate of calling on the tech community to take stronger action on removing terrorist content from their platforms and for creating industry standards to combat it.
Sami Al-Arian indictments and trial began on February 20, 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Al-Arian had been arrested as the alleged leader of the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the U.S., and Secretary of the PIJ's central worldwide governing group (the "Shura Council").
 It also charged three others living in the U.S., as well as four outside the U.S.
 These included Al-Arian's long-time top USF/WISE associate Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who had been designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U.S. in 1995, and was accused of being Secretary General of the PIJ.
Abu Abdullah al Shafi'i (real name Wirya Salih) was the leader of the Jund al Islam and the Ansar Al Sunna from early 2003 to 2010.
 He is a Kurdish veteran of jihad in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
 On 3 May 2010, he was captured along with seven others and is being held in Baghdad Central Prison.
Destination: Morgue!
 L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.
 Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for "GQ" magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir "My Dark Places").
 Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad", "Hot-Prowl Rape-O", and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in "GQ" ("The Trouble I Cause").
 Earlier "GQ" pieces by Ellroy can be found in the 1999 collection "Crime Wave".
The jihad reforms that occurred across Africa during the 19th century had certain key aims.
 The reforms aimed to create Islamic states across Northern Africa where Muslims could live under Islamic laws and teachings.
 The reforms also aimed to counter socio-political problems, including underpopulation and shortages of goods such as food and water, which together intensified existing economic problems.
 Furthermore, they also wanted to stop the European invasion of Africa and the Islamic world, as at this time many European nations were colonising parts of Africa and Islamic empire such as the Ottoman were weakening.
 These aims were met with mixed results across the several jihad movements and resulting caliphates that emerged during the 19th century, as some were able to achieve these goals better than others.
The Dambazawa (or Danbazawa) are a Fulani clan residing mainly in Kano state of Nigeria.
 They were among the key promoters, planners and executors of the Fulani Jihad in Kano, which took place between 1804 and 1807 under the banner of Shehu Usuman dan Fodiyo.
 They were also said to be the top financiers of the jihad in Kano by virtue of their being an extremely wealthy Fulani clan at the time of the jihad.
 Fulani Clans that participated in the Jihad in Kano apart from the Dambazawa include; Mundubawa, Jobawa, Yolawa, Sullubawa, Danejawa and others, including a contingent of the local Hausa people lead by Malam Usuman bahaushe.
 Together this group formed a formidable force that made jihad in Kano and toppled the Kutumbawa dynasty of 158 years; under its last and final ruler Muhammad Alwali dan Yaji dan Dadi bakutumbe (reign: 1781-1806).
Rahsaan Noor (born Rahsaan Noor Islam; September 24 1986) is an American film actor and filmmaker of Bengali descent.
 He made his debut with the Bengali language movie Simanaheen and gained further international recognition with his portrayal of the title character in The Spectacular Jihad of Taz Rahim.
 He is considered the leader of the Bengali New Age Movement with the Tribune India noting that Noor has "put new-age Bengali cinema on a global map.
Deeyah Khan (Urdu: ‎ , ] , born 7 August 1977 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian film director and human rights defender of Punjabi/Pashtun descent.
JIHAD: a story of the others is a 2015 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan.
 The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse.
 "JIHAD" is the outcome of a two-year investigation by Deeyah and provides a view from the inside about what it is like to be drawn into radicalism.
 The documentary film sets out to provide an insight into why some young Muslims in the West embrace violent extremism and go abroad to fight holy wars and in some cases why they came to reject it.