A scriptwriter and director.
Born in Beirut in 1945.
He grew up and lived in Aleppo.
He graduated from the High Institute of Cinematic Studies in Moscow.
During his study he realized some short feature films such as (The Drunken Is Singing) adapted from a short story by Najib Mahfouz, and (The Airport) adapted from a novel by Arthur Haley.
He realized some documentary films about October War: (We shall Not Forget), (The Witnesses) and (The Sea id Our Western Front).
In 1977, he participated with Nabil Al-Maleh in writing the script of (Vestiges of Pictures).
In 1980, he realized (About her), a documentary of medium length about the situation of women in Syria which won the Silver Award of 2nd Damascus Film Festival.
In 1981, he wrote and directed his first feature film (The Incident of Half the Meter) adapted from a novel of the same title by Sabri Mousa. It won the Bronze Award of Valencia festival.
In 1983, he participated with Mohammad Malas in writing the script of the feature film (The City’s Dreams).
In 1986 he wrote and directed his second feature film (The Events of the Coming year) which won the Second Award in Annabah Festibal, Algeria, and that of female acting and O.E.I.E. Award of the Catholic Organization of Cinema and TV.
In 1998, he wrote and directed the feature film (The Strangers Dust) adapted from a novel of the same title written by Faisal Khartash. This film participated in many international festivals and won the Award of the best Arabic Film in Cairo Film Festival in 1998, and the awards of cinematography and acting in Bahrain Festival 1999, and in the Festival of Arabic Cinema in The Institute of the Arab World in Paris.
-  At present he is working on his long film "horas al samt " in cooperation the National Film Organization.

His Movies:

- The Events of the Coming Year

- Public Relations

- The Incident of Half the Meter

- The Strangers’ Dust