More than just rhyming ever-so-slightly, the words tattoo and taboo have forever been intertwined in Egypt.  They roam hand-in-hand in the wilderness, taking shelter together from the peering eyes of Egypt's maddening, inconsistent and, quite often,  nonsensical social norms.

This is all despite the fact that Cairo's tattoo community, so to speak, continues to grow as more and more as top-notch local tattoo artists and parlours emerge, ready to help you piss your parents off. 

One such champion of ink is Zamalek's Nowhere Land who are set to host Egypt's first organised tattoo expo on the weekend of Friday 19th of December.

The two-day event is set to welcome some of Egypt's best tattoo artists as well as a handful from further ashore, all of whom will be cocked, locked and ready to load on the canvas that is your body. But more than just a tattoo-orgy, the expo has been conceived as a meeting of minds; a social event for both tattoo aficionados and tattoo novices, as Orne Gil and the folk at Nowhere Land proudly and enthusiastically state.