Career
He is regarded as the father of Syrian television drama. His first film was his graduation film from the Moscow Film Institute in 1973: Hotel Thanatos, an adaptation of a book by André Maurois. He created his Enterprise First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rahba for artistic productions in 1987.
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rahba now has a small cinema-city outside of Damascus.
In the 41 years of his working life he wrote hundreds of cinematographic articles as well as political articles, and he published a book, Between Cinema and Television.
