Philip RIZK is a film-maker and writer based in Cairo, Egypt. He studied philosophy in Germany and the US, and Middle East Studies in Cairo. Together with Jasmina Metwaly, he directed the feature lm “Out on the Street” (2015), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was part of the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale later that year. Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collec- tive, and his texts have appeared online, in journals and in collected volumes including “2011 is not 1968: a letter to an onlooker”. Rizk was a resident of the DAAD program in Berlin in 2016, and is currently working on a film titled “World without Maps.” His text “An affront to etiquette” reflects on the process of the making of the film. Since 2016 Rizk has been teaching film part-time at the American University in Cairo.