# Mohamed Diab

mohamed diab (Arabic: محمد دياب‎, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħ.amæd dˤiæb], born 1978) is an Egyptian screenwriter and director whose work often centers 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 and was described by the New York Times as "unmistakably a harbinger of that revolution." Paulo Coehlo tweeted about the film calling it "brilliant" and saying "it should be mandatory for men, regardless of their religion/culture, to watch it".Diab wrote the blockbuster Egyptian franchise El Gezeira (The Island) films which are one of the highest-grossing Egyptian films of all time. The films revolve around a tyrannical drug lord on an island in Upper Egypt.