In 2000, with his partners Adhemar Oliveira, Patricia Durães and Renata de Almeida, he opened the distribution company Mais Filmes, specialized in authorial cinema.
In 1974, he ran the Cinema Department at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) and began programming exhibitions and movie series.
Graduated from the Politics and Sociology School in São Paulo.
Family emigrated to Brazil from Syria when he was 8 years old.