Ehab Tarabieh was born in 1982 in Majdal Shams, a small village in the Syrian Golan Heights. Growing up under Israeli military occupation, Tarabieh was politically active at very young age. He studied classical violin at the Conservatory for Classical Music in Damascus before relocating to the Czech Republic to study film. After graduating, he made several award-winning short films that documented life under occupation in Palestine. THE FORGOTTEN, his short narrative film, received a grant from the Doha film Institute and won the Best Short Film Award at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. SMILE, AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE BACK (2014), a short documentary, screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Short Film Award at the Milano Film Festival. He currently works as Camera Project Coordinator in B'Tselem.