Maha Maamoun

Relying exclusively on footage from Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these iconic historical monuments can be re-appropriated from the “timelessness” of the tourist postcard and reinscribed by the political, social, and historical complexity of their urban landscape.

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.