Egypt s Alexandria Killings to be Screened by Irish Director Terry George Published April 28th, 2021 - 12:27 GMT
Egypt’s Mariam Naoum (Twitter)
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And I’m sure that I’ll also be learning a lot during this journey.
Irish screenwriter and director Terry George, the 2012 Oscar prize winner behind “Hotel Rwanda”, is working alongside Egyptian writer Mariam Naoum to write the screenplay for “The Alexandria Killings”, a true crime TV series about female Egyptian serial killer sister duo Raya and Sakina Hammam.
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Set in 1920s Alexandria under British rule, the show details how the pair of sisters rose from poverty to become the owners of a brothel frequented by a powerful group of Egyptian and British officers, informants, and statesmen before murdering 17 women.