 In the 2011 film "Unknown", Hamada played a Saudi sheikh involved in an assassination attempt at a Berlin hotel and in funding biotechnological research.Hamada has also appeared in the Fox series "24" as Samir Mehran, a rogue intelligence agent from the fictional Middle Eastern country of Kamistan who assassinates its president Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor).He served as the season's arch-villain for most of its episodes.