For a filmmaker who has just completed his so-called ‘Cairo trilogy’, with this month’s startling political thriller Eagles of the Republic, there’s a great irony in the fact that Tarik Saleh left Egypt’s capital for good in 2015. He was a week away from shooting the first movie in this trio, The Nile Hilton Incident (2017), when he was advised to leave. “They just told us: ‘Tarik, leave with your foreign friends. You have a week.