After studying Chemistry at the Lebanese University Mohamed Soueid began a career in film criticism writing a collection of books and studies such as "Postponed Cinema - The Lebanses Civil War Films" & "Ya Fouadi - A Chronicle of Beirut's Late Movie Theaters". He directed his first film "Absence" in 1990, then went on to execute his own documentaries and TV works, where he was notably known by his autobiographical trilogy full-length documentaries "Tango of Yearning" (1998), "Nightfall" (2000) and "Civil War" (2002). For several years, he was Film Professor at St. Joseph University - Beirut. Today, Mohamed Soueid, the winner of the Best Director Prize at the Arab TV Works Festival in Cairo 1996, for his film, "Roses of Passion", as well as the best documentary director prize at Beirut International Film Festival in Beirut 2000 for "Tango of Yearning", continues to write in film criticism while doing his own films.