 يروح بداية أبي جانب دواصة اكتفاق المان متاسب اللو صالح اللبنين سيناريس وحجر أنا أفضل من ترى لديه طاليا بحجر السناري too من نهائية كنت أكسسية بشكل جديد أو كما يقام سينموتографي كبير وحديثات that require big effort. I worked very hard to reach this stage. Especially later on when I started working on film scenarios and directing, how would a 30-minute movie or a full hour movie? I specialized in short films. I haven't done any long one until now. So this 30-minute movie we take into consideration the work and effort needed to write the script, create the story, making the scenario, shooting and editing it as well. So this needs a lot of work and effort and staying up all night for it. So it was sort of a hard childhood. It became harder by the years. My parents were the premier supporters. My mother and father liked how I presented, they stood by me a lot. And they supported me in my work, my performance and sometimes criticized me. For example, don't do this or that. My father often used to work with me in production. Like, Dad, what should I do here for production services? And how could I save money here to enhance another field when I'm working as producer? He used to manage my work. My mother also supported me a lot in the field of conversation scripts and giving her opinion in such matters. I studied Arabic language at the Lebanese University and I majored in it. I have a certain touch in writing poetry, thoughts and stories. While I was directing was only a hobby but I proved it by time with the researches and academic studying of directing and the world of audiovisuals. Since then I started gradually improving in my field and aiming to attain the biggest number of experiences that I could make use of. Whether from directors or people concerned in Lebanese cinema. I tried as much as I can to get out of the field of theater though I loved it a lot and I learned it since the beginning. But I moved towards the visual realm after a funny incident that happened during school days when my social studies teacher asked me to do a PowerPoint presentation about a certain social case. So I filmed one and it was the first time I held a camera. So I filmed the case, it was about drug abuse. So I did a short movie, a real amateur one. I filmed it and got my friends to act in it. And I started off by, it was very good and it got journalistic attention. I don't know how they knew about it got their attention. Yet I liked the filming experience and continued until I reached the eighth work which will be soon released. What encouraged me at the start was my ambition to do what I like or what I like to do, my favorite profession. Also there is reliance on God and persistence in work and ambition to get the job done. And of course parents, friends and all the people who encouraged me and supported me whether in school or my teachers whom used to support me a lot to continue on this on this route that I have started to walk on. So these were the supporters. I also enjoy challenging myself in general and used to say to myself that I can't do this yet I try to do it and I'd succeed and I'd say if it won't work I'll make it work. I would fix and do challenging matters to the maximum like what Imam Ali Peace be upon him would say if you fear a matter then fall in it so that was the start. At first the parents and the house religious and pious if we could say atmosphere does give support. The latter gives the child's education and raises him on virtuous matters and that's on one hand while on the other there were scouts and youth activities that used to participate a lot in my life which helped me understand the identity of the sect and Islam's identity in general and the deep love for or the passion if I could say that led me towards the understanding of this religion and realizing dogmatic and existentialist secrets and its religious understanding. That's one side and on the other side the tale of Ahlulbayt helps a person to understand life and to go forward in it if you want to give examples in the school of Ahlulbayt there's the words of Imam Ali alone would be enough to raise a virtuous generation. Those alone a side of the Imam's words were taking an Imam out of 12 or one out of entire school of Ahlulbayt or the Prophet Peace be upon him. So from this point and religious education that I was a big follower of whether by understanding clerics explanations I love to be knowledgeable. It's a normal human behavior since childhood we like to be knowledgeable. So from this point I went into religious and dogmatic lifestyle and there was a specific person that passed by in year 61 Hijri whom is Imam Hussein Peace be upon him. I learned a lot from him and took several morals and these latter helped me reach the stage even if I work as a cinema director or something that's not religiously affiliated but I took a lot of lessons from the school and value several matters that happened in my life. Of course the first time I landed at Annajaf airport if we could say the feeling changed a bit I mean I don't know how to describe it but I felt as if I'm being hosted by Ahlulbayt So what do you think happened when I reached Karbala? The road to Karbala was pretty much like a road I'm filled with passion so I would reach the shrine of Imam Hussein Peace be upon him So how would you think I felt when I saw the dome or got down from the bus? I went down from the bus I remember to join the march a few kilometers from the shrine so when I saw the dome it was an indescribable image it was totally amazing and very beautiful I didn't get affected at first if I'm talking emotionally but it's the thought that a person was crying over Imam Hussein since childhood we remember Haashoura we remember the tragedies that Ahlulbayt passed through at that time especially on the 10th of Muharram in the year 61 Hijri the readings I did and understood I tried to dig in thoroughly in its meanings so I would attach it to the real world and this is Karbala that we talk about and this is Imam Hussein he's buried here and since we were kids we'd cry over him and be inspired by him and we have him as an idol it was a mixture of emotions and I mean there's a feeling of shock and reverence a mixture of sadness and joy so it was a mixture of emotion at that time of course now the Imams of Ahlulbayt are an educational institute by itself a very important one it's a philosophical school of thought at the big picture before they are a religious school a school that teaches life teaches a person how to live it contains what pleases God and what pleases oneself and what pleases one's ambitions eventually he'll have to achieve it by being mature and aware of his actions and how to live his life and primarily he needs to be very very virtuous by dealing with people with virtues with an attackful way with others so this philosophical, ethical school that has different methods of action from morals to we can say that there are several interconnected categories which lead to humane formation a humane philosophical school when I first started with cinematic drama I placed a word in a bracket instructive I consider and this is a thing I've said in previous interviews that if I want to do a meaningful movie I wouldn't waste my time on meaningless matters although it would make some profit but I wouldn't do any project that wouldn't fit the name I've made for myself nor my thoughts I am the type of directors and Lebanon that would fight hard I might fire the producer because this is my idea I don't want to change I don't want to change people would say that this would damage others' interests sometimes that's how the producer would think he would have certain interests with other people I shouldn't get close to that in my work and that's wrong but no, I'm the type of person that I would follow up on an issue and I would attack and criticize because I don't like immorality in the society so I would say anything immoral in the society I'd love to fix it by calling for virtues and prevention of vice so when I say that my movie Losing Point is a movie about drugs so when I say that drugs are bad for your health it is very bad and prohibited thus all of my movies tackle religious taboo issues thus I shed light on them primarily drugs we say that drugs affect the brain and create problems and detaches from reality so some people wouldn't enjoy banning drugs because it gives them certain income I said that I want to face the issue of drugs even if the producer doesn't want to although the producer salutes JAD organization because they are with the idea of fighting drug abuse I worked with several sects in Lebanon such as our fellow Christian brothers I salute them all my Christian friends and I want to talk about something in common between Christianity and Imam Al-Hussain in my own point of view Muslims, Shiites, Sunnis, Druze I worked with several sects in Lebanon while working and while working with them I found that Islam interconnects and aims for the same purpose it has several sects and thoughts yet all of them aim for virtues and prevention of vice our religions call for that like drugs and like steroids in my movies in the goal of dreams steroids are taboo they affect health and God said in the Quran that he says that one shouldn't hurt himself prohibit self harm so from the start I had this instructive project in a religious aspect it's a religious matter primarily I'm helping my society how can I achieve that I may give them a verse of the Quran or a story I would write a novel but if I do so our generation wouldn't understand this not that they wouldn't know but wouldn't go forward to read a book unfortunately this is a widely spread and bad phenomenon in my own point of view so through the movie I think everyone would like I would direct the thoughts this vast amount of thoughts towards the receiver so that the latter would understand and attain it in an easy manner especially if he was a youth between Imam al-Hussain and the Christianity in general I have several Christian friends that we work together several Christian friends that we work together any social media platform I would place something concerning Imam al-Hussain in my opinion there are certain verses about Imam al-Hussain so I would find that Ily writing al-Hussain it's amazing and wonderful that Christians think in a way in a way that not in a dogmatic way concerning al-Hussain but in the story that happened with Imam al-Hussain peace be upon him in Karbala from a humanitarian point of view what we should do and think so we know human eternally what happened with this great person that suffered from this epic so they would see that so they would see that they view Karbala as a humanitarian issue that affects them and they cry for him and of course there is of course there is a contact between myself and my friends in this matter we talk a lot about the idea of there is this person who is the grandson of the prophet in a certain situation at a certain time at the 10th of Muharram 61st Hijri was besieged and banned from drinking and eating banned from the least surviving matters they suffered from that as well nevertheless and the people who faced him and the 30,000 person army know that they faced a 71 person who stood by Imam al-Hussain at that time the person could be secular but he is seeing this story from a humanitarian point of view he would say that why what has he done for them he didn't give he didn't accept to give allegiance to Yazid at that time why would the allegiance be forced so a person would become wiser and start thinking of other issues Imam al-Hussain didn't leave my thoughts ever since I started my artistic work at first in theater I did several plays that embody the epic of Karbala primarily the play we give you our oath it talks about in general the point of view of children towards Hussain's infant how people would give condolences to that infant it's an issue that could be done in theater and how would children view al-Qasim whom was assassinated who was assassinated but did not die in battle because he was tying his shoelace and one of the dam killed him how would they see these tragedies of Karbala how would they be affected how would they see these great people as role models and live inside of them I later worked in an artistic Ashura panorama it also talks about Imam al-Hussain's Ashura on an audiovisual level ever since he went out of Medina and headed towards Kufa then he stopped at Karbala due to a roadblock at first the play we give you our oath I was around 12 years old I was at elementary school or high school I rewrote it and directed it I didn't come up with the story it's something that really happened it talks about Ahlulbayt and their epic but it wasn't my style I rewrote it with my teachers who my salute the ones who taught me at high school they helped me in profreading the script and then we acted it and there were a lot of kids showing up and watching it and playing you wouldn't believe that teachers and the educational staff started crying I was happy with the play because the moral was received by the kids and adults and especially adults though it was a kids play I remember I started saying to the teachers that I made you cry it was the first work for Al-Hussain and then on stage I remember that we made everything up from from nothing they were panoramic stuff they became like acting tools and we embodied the infant and so on and finally we made something that affected people it's a moral eventually when we say that Karbala is a moral and a tear it's true and it's a moral more than a tear the moral that makes you reach the tear the kids and educational staff at the school were totally affected by the play and it was played at several places and on different time and then I moved to work on vocals and I had friends who had nice voices in singing and chanting by the way I used to have a nice voice when I started but I didn't work on that much and went towards directing so I didn't work on my vocals I used to chant when I was young and do Majlis Haza at home which was on a yearly basis and after that I started working on vocals with my friends which became a work in theater a play that talks about Ashura and Imam Hussein on stage almost almost like Latmiya but in a theatrical way so I used to train my friends after I became more professional and experienced and one of them became a chanter we worked more we worked more on vocals and its improvement and later on I worked on something audio visual that relates to Imam Hussein so I worked on a video clip concerning Imam Hussein peace be upon him and certain scout activities not on a professional level but something like reports and video clips so I worked on a project at Saeeda Khawla Shrine then we produced and participated in panoramic scout works about Imam Hussein and how would we salute Karbala to our active and film project and at the end of that phase I started writing about Imam Hussein I wrote poems a lot and I wrote poems not books most of my writings were poetic towards Imam Hussein I didn't know why I didn't write anything else the amount of poems and thoughts I had I have a book about about that we'll talk about it later were about Imam Hussein I'm preparing a book about Imam Hussein this is my second one the first one is called طريق السعادة talks about happiness and how to achieve it in my own point of view the Imam Hussein book is problematic from 1400 years ago until now there was a person called حسين بن علي every first of محرم people cry over him and remember him for 10 days and sometimes 40 these 40 days are as if he actually martyred today but why do we cry all of these years over him this is the book that I'm preparing إن شاء الله in the future it might be my doctorate these years at the Lebanese university you see in Karbala a thought or who dives in what happened in Karbala and Hussein at that time realizes that whatever we do is little in front of what he has done and gave for us he says that all what we have is from عشورa it's true all what we have is a virtue of عشورa a virtue of Karbala and what has happened I have these morals for myself I mean I work in art and cinema and matters unrelated to religion general but I remember that I have a school called Imam Hussein and Karbala how would someone work on himself in order to in order to have these great people as role models I have a dream to do a unique movie about about about sadly our society I have not seen not Lebanon or Iraq or the Arab world but in the global society I have not seen any work done concerning Karbala that is truly worth the issue I haven't seen artworks you know there are great series like Saeeda Maryam or a prophet Yusuf big Iranian and Arab artworks I haven't seen any artwork concerning Imam Hussein or Karbala that deserves to be called deserves to be called a successful series or movie or artwork sadly I want to do so I have an ambition to do so later on I have an ambition to do a movie that speaks Karbala in every detail and talks about everything a huge artwork that would equal the idea and would be received by the viewer easily and is of Imam Ali where he is Imam Ali who is Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam. Imam.