Mohamed Diab is an award-winning writer and director, who's work is often centred on pressing issues concerning Egyptian society. He is known for his directorial debut film Cairo 678 (Les Femmes du bus 678), which was released a month before the Egyptian revolution, a drama about three women who unite to fight against the plague of male chauvinism in Cairo. Diab wrote the blockbuster Egyptian franchise El Gezira (The Island) films which are considered the highest grossing Egyptian and arabic films of all times. The films revolve around a tyrannical druglord on an island in Upper Egypt. El Gezira was also the 2007 Egyptian nomination for the Academy Awards.
Asides filmmaking, Diab is known for his vocal participation and his involvement in the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which earned him a Webby Award. His role in the revolution is chronicled. After the revolution, Diab wanted to make a film about it. It took him 4 years to develop Eshtebak (Clash) which initially was a film about the rise of the revolution, but ended up being a film that captures the fall of the revolution. Eshtebak (Clash), his second feature film, has been selected as the Opening film of Un Certain Regard in Cannes Film Festival 2016.
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