Joseph Al Ahmad is an actor and director of Bulgarian, Syrian, and Nubian-Sudanese descent.

His mother is a journalist of Nubian-Sudanese descent,[citation needed] and his father is a professor from Syria.

Al Ahmad is the youngest grandson of poet and writer Vanya Petkova.

He is best known for his supporting-lead role as the prisoner Bassam in the Egyptian-Hungarian television series Above the Clouds (2018),[1] while his acting debut was in 2015 with the feature film The Woman of My Life.

As a director, he has made several films that received wide international recognition, most notably, his directorial debut Motives was awarded "Best Narrative Short" at the Los Angeles Film Awards in 2019, earning him the "Honorary Mention: Director" award from the latter as well,[4] for which he was named "Rising talent at the main gates of the Industry" by European entertainment magazine EVA.