While working at Al Emarat Al Youm, a leading Arabic newspaper in Dubai, from 2005 to 2012 as a film critic, he reviewed and critiqued films from the international arena as well as from the Arab cinema world. During this period, he also critiqued and wrote for journals and magazines like Al Akhbar, Al Hayat, Al Bayan, and Al Faisal, and was also a jury member of the Al Khaleej Film Festival 2007. In 2011, Ziad joined Dubai International Film Festival as a programmer and developing manager, where he launched and worked on the project Top 100 Arabic Films (DIFF) and since 2016 he has been working with the Sharjah Art Foundation.