Went through Dubai international transfer gate. The airport looks really modern but they asked for laptops out...which I assume means older scanning tech. First time through, they allowed a hand check no question, but looked annoyed, second time around, gave some pushback but eventually allowed a hand check.
And Egypt was the worst. Scanner at customs on the way in. Twice flew out of Cairo airport, first time, there were three checkpoints (building entrance, domestic terminal entrance before check-in counter, and then once more after check-in counter). Some cases needed escalation to a manage but managed to get a hand-check each time. Second time around, two checkpoints, but managed to talk my way into a hand check both times.
Luxor airport also had at least two checkpoints, managed to get film hand-checked without needing to escalate to a manager, but needed to write down my passport number in a book due to having requested the hand check.
But in Egypt, it's not just airports. Every ticketed tourist destination had x-ray machines, and in the worst case, a museum in Egypt had one manual bag inspection, followed by two x-ray checkpoints, and then a final x-ray checkpoint on the way out. At Alexandria library, the guy was very hesitant to allow my film through without xray but managed to get him to cave.
Sometimes they see the film and know immediately it needs to bypass x-ray, but sometimes they have to ask what it is and why it's bypassing the x-ray. In the worst case, I left my film in the tray and in the two seconds I took my eyes off it to walk through the metal detector, some security guard took it upon himself to put it into the xray machine conveyor belt. I ran back through the metal detector and yanked it off at the last second. The only person in Egypt I hate more than this guy is probably the taxi driver who tried to abduct me.
At one shopping mall in Cairo, they refused to let film into the building even if I would allow it to get xrayed, even after escalating to manager. However, they had no problem with the camera loaded with film, just the film in a ziplock bag was the problem. A person in my party took great offense to this since we had gone all over Egypt with the film and it was allowed everywhere else, and after yelling at them on my behalf, got my film into the building without it getting xrayed.
If you're thinking about going to Egypt with film...do not recommend.