Maha Maamoun

Maha Maamoun

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Domestic Tourism II 2008

Exclusively utilizing footage from other Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these iconic historical monuments can be reappropriated from the “timelessness” of the tourist postcard and reinscribed into the complex political, social, and historical moment in urban narratives.
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Most Fabulous Place 2008

Most Fabulous Place flips through postcards of Egypt's main tourist attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, alongside a soundtrack of conversations from various Egyptian films that occur next to these iconic monuments.
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2026 2012

Based on a text from the recent Egyptian novel The Revolution of 2053 by Mahmoud Uthman, and referencing a scene from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a time-traveller recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area, and by extension Egypt, in the year 2026 – a vision that strains to reach beyond, yet remains severely confined by the present’s imaginal constraints.