Biography
He studied computer science and graduated from the Modern Academy in Maadi – Egypt. At age of 18, he started his career in the art field and opened the first Arabic e-magazine named “Alam El Fonoun”. At the age of 19, he joined the team of Alexandria International Film Festival as public relation director and became the year after the artistic director of the festival.
In 2002, he was involved in the production of opera “Aida” in Doha, Qatar and “Aida” under the pyramids of Giza (Egypt) as the artistic director. He produced a series of operas and classic music concerts in Egypt, Syria, Dubai and other countries. His operatic repertoire includes 20 operas ranging from Aida, Tosca, Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, La Boheme to Turandot.
He also founded the international animation celebration in Dubai. He worked as a consultant and director of many companies including Studio 7 productions, Nile Cinema, Star Animation, Mizalat, Capacity World and others. In 2003 he founded his own production company “AraMage Artistic Production” in Damascus, Syria then moved to Cairo, Egypt. He produced and distributed more than 20 films, short movies and documentaries. He is a consultant of 23 international film festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. He participated as a jury member in many international film festivals.
He is currently writing and producing a movie called “To Whom it May Concern” to be directed by Khaled El Hagar. He is also associate / artistic producer and co-scriptwriter of the adaptation for cinema of opera “Aida” in animation by Philippe Druillet, and Guillaume Hecht, a French (Guillaume Hecht)-Belgian (Jean-Luc Van Damme) co-production., a Franco Belgium co production. In 2008, he co-founded with Olivier Delesse their production company "So Freakantastik", a French production house. Finally, he is also consultant with Salon du Cinéma (Paris Cinema Fair) since 2008.
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