Egypt vs Morocco vs Jordan: where should you shoot?

An honest comparison from a company that services productions across the region — Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh.

Where Egypt wins

Range of looks per shooting day. No other hub puts pharaonic monuments, medieval Islamic streets, European boulevards, modern skyline, open desert and a world-class coastline within one unit move. Crew depth: Egypt has the region's oldest and largest film industry — full bilingual departments, not imported cores. Cost: highly competitive day-rates and location fees. Stages: real sound-stage and backlot capacity.

Where Morocco and Jordan are strong

Morocco has decades of serviced Hollywood desert epics and established rebate awareness; Jordan offers Petra, Wadi Rum and a fast single-window film commission. Both are excellent desert doubles. If your film is only desert, they are legitimate options — and we'll tell you so.

The honest bottom line

If your story needs one look, choose the cheapest place that has it. If it needs cities, monuments, water, period and desert — Egypt gives you all of them inside one production, one currency, one crew. And with Aroma Studios you also get a partner already operating in Saudi Arabia and the UAE if your schedule spans the region.

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