Although filmmaker Jocelyne Saab was born and raised and is based in Beirut, her filmmaking career has also centered on Cairo. She shot one documentary in the city in 1979, a second in 1986 and a third on Arab dancing in 1989. And because it had always been “a dream of youth” to make cinema in the “city of cinema,” as she told Egypt Independent, in 1998 she began work on the script of her first Cairene feature. “Dunia” was released in 2005 and immediately censored.