RABAB HAJ YAHYA (She/Her) is a Palestinian-American documentary editor based in New York. Best known for the award-winning feature documentaries, THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019) for which she won Best Editing Award (Woodstock, 2018) as well as the Critic’s Choice-nominated SPEED SISTERS (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix).

More recently, Rabab edited ANOTHER BODY, recipient of the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling (SXSW, 2023), HBO’s THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND (Tribeca, 2021| HBOMax), and the Emmy-nominated APART (HotDocs, 2021).

Rabab is a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab advisor (2023), and has served as a mentor for the Documentary Contributing Editor Fellowship 2024, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Chicken & Egg, and Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2022-2024.

​Email: rabab@gocapture.tv

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