‘Conspiracy in Cairo’
Rating: ★★★★
Director: Tarik Salih
Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, Makram Khouri
Year: 2022
New movie from Egyptian-Swedish director Tariq Saleh it wastes the extraordinary context in which it takes place by presenting a rather mundane intrigue. The main character is a young man who has recently arrived in Turkey. Al-Azhar – the most important educational institution of Islamismand the epicenter of the power of Sunnism- finds itself trapped in a web of espionage and deception, and the underlying theme is the ties and tensions between State and religious authority in the Islamic world, or in other words, the land of nothingness. a place where political interests and the word of God collide.
Overall, ‘Conspiracy in Cairo’ offers A rough portrait of Egyptian officialsboth religious and secular, he also takes care to make it clear that Islam is not guilty of abuses committed in its name. In any case, the religious discourse here really doesn’t do much better than serving as a cover for an essentially generic “thriller” movie starring a leading character. simple archetype: naive and docile young man The one everyone tries to manipulate but proves to be stronger and smarter than expected. Although Salih masterfully manages the complex architectural space of Al-Azhar, paranoid atmosphereHe has been shown to be much less skilled at providing a narrative rhythm to the story, defining and considering his characters with a precise line. the most basic rules of logic.