A Syrian film director, who studied cinema at the High Cinema Institute in Cairo and graduated from it in 1979. He worked as an assistant in the movie Kafron (1989) and wrote and directed his first feature film Woman in the Abyss (1990), then returned to work in the cinema as an assistant director in the movie The Young Parents (2006). He directed many TV movies and series, including Abu Antar's Diaries (1996).