With a background in film production from UCLA Extension's Film Department, he has explored various avenues of cinema such as a scriptwriter and actor in short films in London, L.A. and Cairo. In 1996 he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, Welcome Says The Angel, in 2006 he wrote and directed El Tanbura which won the Golden Turon in the Etnofilm Festival in Cadca and the Jury's prize award in the Sawi Documentary Film Festival in Cairo.