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SAMI ASSAF

Creative Strategist · Brand Storyteller · Recording Artist
rate me. i'll perform anyway.
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I build worlds.
For brands, and for myself.

Started with a song, ended up in strategy. Turns out writing a hit and building a brand are the same skill — most people just don't know both sides. I know both.

The Receipts
100K+
views in 4 days on $16 of ad spend — STILL teaser
$100K+
in social revenue generated in one year
13.5×
ROAS on a single paid campaign
1M+
organic views on a single influencer campaign
For Brands & Clients

Selected Work

Brands I've built from the ground up — name, concept, identity, and the campaigns that made them convert.

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01STILL
Jewelry Brand · Built from scratch

A jewelry brand built end to end — the name, the concept, the full visual identity, and the creative direction. A world where jewelry meets the earth, born from one founder's story. The teaser hit 100k views in 4 days on $16 of ad spend.

NamingConceptVisual IdentityCreative DirectionCampaign
STILL
Pavé on stone
STILL
Emerald & bloom
STILL
Gold vine
STILL
Stars
STILL
Hoops in greenery

★ @werestilljewelry
02Tiffany Eva Diab
Artist Branding · Codex + content

A complete brand codex for a Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter — visual identity, palette, wardrobe and photography direction, four content pillars, press bios, and the Arabic-transition narrative — plus the creative direction and photography for her live content. Built from her real world: botanical art, ancient jewellery, candlelit altars, Victorian lace, women who feel everything. Where the music becomes a universe.

Creative direction & photography — live set
Tiffany Eva Diab
Barefoot, warm light
Tiffany Eva Diab
On the mic
Tiffany Eva Diab
Transmitting
Tiffany Eva Diab
The craft
Tiffany Eva Diab
Candlelit
Tiffany Eva Diab
In the song
"For music lovers who use songs the way others use journals — the artist who makes it feel like the song already knew what you were going through."
Mysticalbotanical, ancient, spiritual — depth that doesn't announce itself
Softlace, candlelight, old paper, a voice that doesn't push
Poeticevery word earns its place, every image says two things
The Palette — drawn from her moodboard
Sandy Gold
Deep Wine
Terracotta
Dusty Sage
Amber Gold
Butter
Muted Rose
Dusty Blue
Warm Brown
Four Content Pillars
  • The Journal — her inner world made visible: collage pages, dream fragments, voice notes
  • The Craft — how the music gets made: practice moments, lyrics in progress
  • The Roots — Lebanon, faith, identity, the kuffiyeh, Arabic untranslated
  • The Gaze — what she reads, watches, feels: Joni Mitchell, Anaïs Nin, botanical worlds
Photography Direction
  • Warm light always — golden hour, candle, lamp. The light is a character.
  • She's inside things — the field, the frame — never the flat mid-distance shot
  • Film grain always. Highlights pulled, warmth elevated. One preset, forever.
  • The test: does it look like a photograph from a personal archive?
Wardrobe & World

Victorian lace, flowing maxi dresses, the kuffiyeh always present. Ancient-looking jewellery — coin necklaces, amber beads. Bare feet. Nothing that looks new.

A glimpse of the codex — the full document covers audience, stage presence, communication strategy, three press bios, and the Arabic-transition narrative arc.

Artist BrandingBrand CodexCreative DirectionPhotographyContent Strategy

★ @tiffanydiab
03Freya Barakat
Filmmaker · Brand codex + social

A full brand and content codex for a trained filmmaker turned the subject of her own camera — positioning, audience, six content pillars, the voice, and one cinematic visual identity with six adaptations. Plus ongoing creative direction for her social journey across Beirut and Dubai. Built from her own footage, not invented for her. The director's cut of everything.

"The director's cut. Not the finished version. The real one. A filmmaker who is cinematic in how she sees, dramatic in how she feels, and untamed in how she lives — building a name that outlasts any single platform."
Cinematicshe sees in frames — grain, motion, warm backlight, nothing posed
Dramaticpermission to be intense, spiritual, and a little too much
Untamedunfiltered, natural, never performed — authentic by design
The Palette — one dial, six positions
Forest
Pine
Sage Mist
Oxblood
Wine
Crimson
Rust
Antique Gold
Bone
Six Content Pillars
  • The Commentary — quick opinions and reactive takes that keep her present
  • Deleted Scene — cryptic, bold, "shouldn't post this but I am"
  • The Director's Cut — raw, unedited life. the parasocial pull
  • The Monologue — grounded wisdom on spirituality and mental health
  • The Location Hunt — aspiration. the "I want to live like that" pull
  • The Slate — craft respect, speaking directly to filmmakers
The Look
  • Melancholic, dramatic, cinematic. One identity, six adaptations.
  • Visible imperfection as a feature — grain, motion blur, natural skin texture.
  • Retro grading over clean digital. Candid over posed. Bodies and camera in motion.
  • The test: does it feel like found footage from her own life, not a shoot?
The Markets

A long-term dual presence across Beirut and Dubai — content, language, and targeting that holds both Lebanese and Gulf context, never a single generic feed.

A glimpse of the codex — the full document covers positioning, the voice, platform strategy, the content labelling system, and her brand, modeling & industry deal strategy.

Artist BrandingBrand CodexContent PillarsCreative DirectionSocial Strategy

★ @freyafromfilm
04Host Masters
Photography & Video · Real estate

Full property production for a real-estate and short-term rental brand — professional photography and video across three distinct properties, from a grand heritage villa to a minimalist mountain retreat and a Batroun stone house. Listing-grade visuals built to turn a scroll into a booking. Casa de Sultan · Douq · Batroun.

Douq — the mountain retreat
Douq infinity pool
Infinity pool & valley
Douq dining
Glass-wall dining
Douq kitchen
Open-plan living
Douq night
Night terrace
Casa de Sultan — the heritage villa
Casa de Sultan villa
Stone villa & grounds
Casa de Sultan pool
Garden pool
Casa de Sultan majlis
Traditional majlis
Casa de Sultan bedroom
Guest suite
Batroun — the stone house
Batroun terrace
Courtyard terrace
Batroun facade
Vine-stone facade
Batroun dining
Industrial dining
Batroun bedroom
Wood-beam bedroom
PhotographyVideoCreative DirectionReal Estate

★ @host.masters
05Hostland Rentals
Photography & Video · Short-term rentals

Full production for a Beirut short-term rental company — professional photography and vertical video across their listings, plus three distinct styled scapes for a single space. Airbnb-standard visuals built to turn a listing into a booking. Shot in Gemmayze and beyond.

Hostland studio
Canopy suite
Hostland studio
Rattan suite
Hostland studio
Garden-view room
Hostland studio
Arched suite
Hostland studio
Soft-grey studio
Hostland studio
Canopy & screen

★ @hostlandrentals
06Local Host
Brand & Content · Rentals

Ran the full brand and content operation for a short-term rental company across four markets — content strategy, creative direction, paid campaigns, and the storytelling that turned listings into a following. Built the brand book, the visual system, and the campaign calendar. $100K+ in social revenue · a Valentine's campaign that drove $11K+ in organic bookings · an Easter influencer brief at 1M+ views.


★ @localhostrentals
07Brand Campaigns
Concept & Creative Direction

Campaign concepts and creative direction across beauty, hospitality, and lifestyle — including a NYX Professional Makeup product launch (GCC) and an Al Beiruti Restaurant Valentine's campaign (Beirut).

Campaign ConceptCreative DirectionCopy & Story
For Labels, Press & Collaborators

The Artist

Male. Arab. Pop. Performer. Unapologetic. The pop star who makes flowers look dangerous — from Beirut, arriving on every stage like the room was always his.

3eddeli single cover
3EDDELI · عدّلي

The single. A song about the people who rate you — and doing exactly what you do anyway. Cobalt, gold, and a whole world built around one idea: rate me. watch what happens.

كم نجمة بتعطيني؟
★ Out Now — Listen
75K+
streams worldwide
Anghami
Tempo Expo · industry
4
singles released

Press Bio

Sami Assaf is a Lebanese pop artist, songwriter, and performer from Beirut — the complete male Arab pop act the genre has never had. He moves. He writes his own songs. He builds his own world. Physically commanding, emotionally precise, and unapologetically expressive, he fills a space in Arab pop that has been empty for as long as the genre has existed.

His signature is the tension between a commanding pop presence and a botanical world he gravitates toward in every choice — the gold layered always, the flowers he makes look dangerous by being near them. Not the Arab version of anyone. The first version of himself, filtered through Beirut, Arabic, and a life built on refusing the ceiling.

"I'm the next pop sensation." Said as a fact. The room nodded.

Discography

Music

Because it all started with a song — and the storytelling never left.

عدّلي
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Let's build
something undeniable.