Ahmed Mahmoud Abouzeid graduated in 1996 from the screenwriting section at the Higher Cinema Institute. He worked as a director for the Egyptian satellite channel starting from 1996 and directed several television programs including Camera View, Cinema Magazine, and Stories from the History of Cinema in addition to several documentaries and advertisements. Mahmoud then wrote several episodes of the comedy series Shabab Online in 2001. He has also written many TV series and has adapted several of his father's films into TV series of the same name such as The Shame (2010) and Drug Habit (2016).