A Lebanese journalist, translator, researcher and film critic, born in the Lebanese capital Beirut in 1946, worked as an assistant director at the beginning of his life, he has also co-written many films with screenwriter Abdel Hay Adeeb. Since 1970, he has worked in the field of journalism in the newspapers of the Constitution, the Communiqué, the Ambassador and Life, and has a number of published publications, including: (In Arabic cinema, Maroon al-Baghdadi cinema, cinema of man, Martin Scorsese), over 40 books have been translated in various fields, mainly from French, English, and Italian.