"Matwa" (Switchblade) 2013

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Featured on BBC Arabic’s Alternative Cinema.

Egyptian slums like Cairo's Dar El-Salam are dismissed by many from Egypt's middle and upper classes as dangerous, bereft of any artistic expression, and populated by those who are the antithesis of "nas mosaqafa", cultured people. Here I mean to subvert these prejudices by exploring Dar El-Salam's knife culture.