How ‘Moon Knight’ Harnessed the Power of Egypt’s Top Creatives — And Even Flew Over a Taxi Driver — to Push for Authenticity and “Avoid the Orientalist Look”

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How ‘Moon Knight’ Harnessed the Power of Egypt’s Top Creatives — And Even Flew Over a Taxi Driver — to Push for Authenticity and “Avoid the Orientalist Look”
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Director and executive producer Mohamed Diab says this was key to his mission and saw him hire top Egyptian composer Hesham Nazih, editor Ahmed Hafez and ensure that 90 percent of the Egyptian roles went to fellow countrymen.

, as anyone who knows the comic or has watched the first episode of Marvel’s latest adaptation on Disney+ will have seen.

The title character anti-hero — and his alter-egos Marc Spector and Stephen Grant, all played by Oscar Isaac — is the avatar of Konshu, the bird skull-headed Egyptian god of the moon, who has granted Moon Knight supernatural abilities to carry out his holy vengeance. His chief foe in the series is Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, a cultist zealot closely associated with Ammit, a god also known as the “devourer of the dead,” hoping to dole out deadly justice based on future crimes.

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