The son of the singer and actress Leila Mourad and film director FatinAbdelWahab was born on 18 February 1961. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema in 1983.
It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Wahhāb, one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. [1 ] [2 ] It means "servant of the all-giver".