Maharem originated from the tissue box that middle to lower-income families exhibit in their sitting room for their guests’ convenience. These boxes are lavishly decorated with velvet and kitschy gold rims and are considered decorative masterpieces, a source of pride to the lady of the house. The artist’s initial manipulation of the tissue box was to rip bare the box from the comfort of the velvet coating, using the roughness of wood and the sharpness of the language, through printed popular sayings, proverbs and riddles, thus changing the functionality of the object from utilitarian to a source of ideas. Witnessing the guests’ interaction with these boxes enticed Daydban to further introduce prints from essentially Egyptian movies that shaped his childhood and contributed to his emotional development. Maharem was born.