Osman earned her PhD in 2012 from New York University, where she studied Media, Culture and Communication. She is also a graduate of the Culture and Media program in Anthropology.

She is the co-director of the critically acclaimed documentary Postcards from Tora Bora. Her research and teaching are rooted in feminist media ethnographies that focus on the political economy of global media industries and the regimes of representation and visual culture they produce.

Wazhmah Osman is a filmmaker and associate professor at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. She is a faculty affiliate of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) program, as well as the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania.