Egypt Beyond the Pyramids

If you read the tourist brochures, Egypt is all about pharaohs and pyramids. If you watch the evening news, it's full of conflict and extremism. Neither could be further from the truth. Knowing that conflict was brewing once again in Egypt, Karin Muller took a huge risk. She set out to film a documentary on Egyptian life - in the middle of a revolution. For three months, Karin traveled alone from the upper Nile to the Red Sea, sharing the day-to-day lives of ordinary Egyptians. Through the eyes of fishermen and bakers, street dancers and Cairo's kamikaze taxi drivers, Karin discovered a side of Egypt that few foreigners get to see. Along the way she was invited to join in Muslim festivals, weekly animal markets, and into the tents during the second fateful revolution that brought all Egyptians together and then tore them apart. Muller survived the military coup, only to be attacked by a mob in a remote village in the Nile delta. Seriously injured, she flew back to the States for emergency surgery. Egypt Beyond the Pyramids reveals the many faces of this complicated land, where a fundamentally kind and generous people struggle to emerge from six decades of brutal dictatorship, fear, and propaganda.