Work
A Garden in Cairo
The Dig
Written and produced by Omar Etman.
Production support from Liza Yeager. Edited by Liza, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir
Documentary, Egypt
My grandmother’s apartment in Cairo used to overlook a garden. Then, overnight, without notice - it was demolished. It’s part of a pattern. In the last ten years, the current Egyptian regime has seized the city from the people. In this reported story, I try to answer the simple question: what happened to my grandmother’s garden, and why, and find a much bigger political and economic story about the state of life and fear in Egypt.