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“We are living in a time when it’s a superpower to be a celebrity”: Tarik Saleh on the culmination of his Cairo trilogy
Exiled from Cairo after clashing with Egypt’s security apparatus, filmmaker Tarik Saleh has built a trilogy of thrillers anatomising power, surveillance and corruption under the Sisi regime. As he completes it with Eagles of the Republic, he reflects on propaganda, celebrity politics and the fraught act of telling the truth.
By James Mottram
“We are living in a time when it’s a superpower to be a celebrity”: Tarik Saleh on the culmination of his Cairo trilogy