Danielle Arbid, born 26 April 1970 in Beirut, is a Lebanese film director. Arbid exiled Lebanon at the height of the civil war in 1987, at the age of 17, to study literature at a faculty of letters in Paris, France. She also studied journalism while working as a freelance French Journalist for five years, including writing Lib�ration dailies. In 1997 her interests in journalism lead to a career in film making with the creation of short fiction Raddem and documentary Seule ave la guerre.Ames, Roy. Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film". Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between; fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; with an experimentation of the intersecting of genres. She was one of the founding members of the Lebonese film festival N� � Beyrouth in 2001. 

April 26th, 1970 in Beirut (Age 54)