Ziad Doueiri (Arabic: زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963)[1][2] is a Lebanese film director.
Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut on October 7, 1963, and grew up there during the Lebanese Civil War, where he shot his personal films with an 8 mm camera.
At the age of 20, he left Lebanon during the civil war to go study in the United States, and graduated in 1986 from San Diego State University[3] with a degree in cinema, then worked with Quentin Tarantino as camera assistant[4] then cinematographer for movies such as Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs.
Its production costed 1.5 million dollars, with French and Egyptian funding and the Doha Film Institute.
[8][9] His next film, "Foreign Affairs," in which he was assigned the title role of French actor Gérard Depardieu, is about a retired French diplomat who is secretly sent by the American government to negotiate an agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.