Simon El Habre was born in Beirut. He obtained his diploma in Audiovisual Directing from Academie Libanaise de Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in 1998 and graduated from Femis (Paris) in Film and Video Editing two years later.
Since 2001, he has been teaching Video and Visual Expression as well as Film and Video Editing at ALBA. He directed a large number of commercials and TV reportages, mainly for Arab satellite channels MBC, al-Arabia, and al-Jazeera and edited award winning short and documentary films.
