In this episode we talk about the material aspects of making movies in Egypt, trying to tease which aspects are shared and which are unique to that context. The Egyptian movie industry is also a powerhouse in the Arab world, we discuss its role in the region and which processes gave it the prominence it has today.

Chihab El Khachab is an academic and writer working on Egyptian cinema, popular culture, humour, technology, and bureaucracy. Chihab was born in Cairo and raised in Montreal. He holds a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2017) and is now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge.