Professor Bizri is founding director of the U of M Institute for Advanced Study Film Collective and in 2006 presented a first-of-its-kind symposium on film and culture in the Arab world. He is also the co-founder of the Arab Institute of Film in Amman, Jordan. Bizri's films have been shown internationally including the Louvre, Cairo Opera House, Biennale des Cinema Arabes (Paris), Milan Film Festival (Italy), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Harvard Film Archives (Cambridge), Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Cinematheque Francaise (Paris).