He is one of the most influential film critics of Arab cinema in the region, based in Cairo, Egypt.
He also teaches the subject of film critique to the students in the final years of The Cairo university, faculty of Mass-communication.
He has numerous cinematic participations in arbitration committees of International and Arab festivals.
[3] He has made calls for reform of the old-fashioned censorship regulations that disallow cinema and TV to impersonate the prophets.
These regulations were made in 1926 when Youssef Wahbi desired to make a film depicting prophet Muhammad which was disallowed by Al-Azhar.