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Everybody wonders how my home city of Suez could bring Hosni Mubarak’s rule in Egypt to an end. The story of my generation, myself, my crows and the waves may help explain.
Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful position in Egypt – but that he would lose all his power in a place called Suez. On January 25, 2011, the Egyptian revolution was sparked in Suez City, even before it reached Tahrir Square. Through his personal story of the past 30 years, the director tells of a generation of Egyptian revolutionaries who ousted Mubarak – and later Mohamed Morsi – from power; a revolution that was born in the 80s during the early years of Mubarak's rule in Suez.

Credits

Director
Ahmed Nour
Screenwriter
Ahmed Nour
Producer
Ahmed Nour
Co-Producer
Layla Triqui

About the Director

Ahmed Nour
Ahmed Nour was born in Egypt in 1983. He studied television directing at Ain Shams University from 2000 to 2004, then went on to study creative documentary filmmaking at the Arab Institute of Film in 2007. He has attended workshops in feature and documentary film directing and cinematography, and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2011. He has worked as assistant to several well-known
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