Hello There
My name is Fares Muthana. I love sharing people's stories as well as telling a few of my own. To connect with people is to tell stories.
My Story
I was born in the Middle East in a country called Yemen. It sits next to the Red Sea, and it neighbors Saudi Arabia and Oman. I still remember the time I spend in Yemen. My great-uncle and I would walk through the forest to a watermelon patch and pick the best for dinner. The village kids would run local soccer matches with makeshift goalposts made from possibly sugar cane, I do not exactly remember. I was on the young side so I only could watch. I came to the United States when I was six years old, and I have not left since. My family and I settled in the central part of California, more specifically Traver, due to having an abundance of family in neighboring Fresno. I was a fish out of water. I did not know the language, and I did not know the customs. The town was tiny as it has barely 700 people. I loved it though, there was a serenity to it. I ended up moving to the Bay Area in the fifth grade. My serenity was gone very quickly.
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It was a new environment to learn. I sat back and watched because when I moved to Berkeley, a part of me started to activate itself. The creative side started to show, and it could have been the environment that fostered it. When I was in high school, I took a production class, and it was my first time editing and shooting video which was completely new for me. I grew up just taking pictures, some well, so not so well. That class did spark something in me. I was applying to colleges when I found the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA) department at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and it felt right.
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At SFSU, the BECA department has allowed me to combine my first love, journalism with the tools to tell stories in multiple mediums. I was a part of the radio station KSFS; I use that medium to give my opinion on pop culture and news, using what journalism has taught me, which is to over-research the topic you are speaking of. I have also done some news writing for certain classes, as well as going into the field to do interviews and shoot profiles. Everything and everyone has a story, and my job is to respectfully tell it. I can say that I was good enough at telling those stories as I got my Bachelor's Degree from SFSU.