A Cairo-born journalist, film critic and researcher, he wrote hundreds of articles about films for several Arabic publications. Zakarea was the author of ten books about Egyptian and foreign cinemas. He also translated from English and German tens of articles, and many novels and books about cinema. He was jury member in several local and international film festival and participated in many cultural seminars,research circles, film programs.
Now he is the president of Ismailia international Film festival for Documentary and Shorts.
Among the positions he had held: Editor-in-chief of Nazra Magazine dedicated to independent cinema, instructor at the film department of the AUC (AmericanUniversity in Cairo), supervisor for Jesuit Film School in Alexandria and lecturer on film at SEMAT Film School and Emad Eddin Studio Film Workshop
