Mohamed Attia (born September 19, 1973) is an Egyptian actor, production designer and art director who is best known for his collaborations with Marwan Hamed, Yousry Nasrallah, Mohamed Khan, and Tarek Alarian. He is also one of the key artistic directors behind the Pharaohs' Golden Parade and the parade that celebrated the restoration of Luxor's Avenue of Sphinxes. He received the Egyptian National Film Festival's Best Art Design Award for his work in The Blue Elephant, the Egyptian Catholic Center For Cinema's Best Art Director Award for The Originals, the Cairo Design Award's Golden Award in the Production Design Category for Diamond Dust and Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers, and the Silver Award for his work in Sons of Rizk 2. Education and Career Attia studied dentistry at Cairo University for five months before deciding it wasn't his passion. He then transferred to the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, where he interned on the set of Al Mohager (The Emigrant) — a 1994 film directed by Youssef Chahine. In 1995, he completed his architectural studies and began working as a draftsman in France. After working on drawings for over three years, he jumped at the chance to return to Cairo and help renovate buildings at the 1930s-era production complex Studio Misr. There, he met production designer and art director Salah Marei, who encouraged him to change careers and introduced him to film director Khan. There, he met production designer and art director Salah Marei, who encouraged him to change careers and introduced him to film director Khan in 2004, after which he began his art design career by working on the film Klephty with Khan. After this, Attia worked with Khan again in 2005 on Downtown Girls and again in 2007 on In the Heliopolis Flat. Later, in 2009, Attia collaborated with renowned director Yousry Nasrallah on the film Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story, marking another major turning point in his career; three years later, they collaborated once again on the film After the Battle. Then, in 2014, he worked for the first time with two other major directors — Marwan Hamed on THE BLUE ELEPHANT and Tarek Alarian on the TV show Soula. In the years that followed, he worked with Tarek Alarian, Marwan Hamed, and Yousry Nasrallah again on a number of blockbusters, like the Sons of Rizk film series, The Walls of the Moon, and Blue Elephant