Lauand Omar was born in 1978 in Damascus, Syria. He grew up in Germany and studied film and television production in Miami, Florida, and Toronto, Canada. In 2005, he wrote and produced his first feature film, the women's rights drama Tears of Bekhal, filmed in Iraqi Kurdistan. The film was the first Kurdish film to be selected at the 2006 Emirates Arab Film Festival, which took place in Abu Dhabi. In 2007-2008, he produced several popular reality shows in the UAE before joining MTV Arabia as a producer. In 2010, he wrote and co-wrote the series Aassas, a supernatural comedy set in Morocco, which was the first series from the region to sign an agreement with the renowned European production company Gaumont France.