Waw و is the stage name for Alexandria-born, Cairo-based Ashraqat Mohamed. Ashraqat is a writer, film programmer, and co-founder of the audiovisual collective Asyad Al Noom.

A sound hailing from a distance whispering change. It's not a soundscape, it's a scope of time in which sound escapes. Sound in the body, sound in the mind's eye, sound in the fingertips, it's an experience of knowing sound intimately as though it's a close confidant.