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Intishal Al-Timimi, the long-time director of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, is stepping down from the role he has held since the event’s launch in 2017 in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna.

When it comes to keeping the momentum for storytelling, writers from hit shows such as True Detective: Night Country, Irish hit dramedy Faithless and British superhero comedy Extraordinary all have different approaches for making returnable television series. 

Regina King is starring in a new movie with her sister Reina!

An aid worker has revealed the horror being suffered by children and families on the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The prestigious 80-year-old Al-Ahram Studio in Cairo‘s Giza district has been destroyed in a fire early on Saturday morning that took six hours to extinguish.

Sydney Sweeney and the stars of Immaculate are celebrating the premiere at Beyond Fest!

Jurgen Klopp says Mohamed Salah is now back in contention to start matches for Liverpool ahead of their FA Cup clash with Manchester United this weekend.

Murtada Elfadl Juxtaposing the story of the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba with a musical tour of jazzman Louis Armstrong and with the expansion of the United Nations after the independence of many African countries in the 1960s might be tall order. Trickier still would be telling this complex story, full of many characters and plot swerves, in a nonlinear manner while filling the screen with written clues providing context like a bibliography of an academic thesis.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Good Girls” is getting an Arabic version, marking the first international adaptation of the Universal Television show about three moms embarking on a life of crime. Titled “Lunch Box,” the Arabic “Good Girls” redo features Egyptian stars Ghada Adel, Jamila Awad and Fadwa Abed in the main roles as three women — two sisters and their friend — who, faced with sudden economic hardship, decide to pull an unlikely heist. Just like in the U.S.

Kaouther Ben Hania will history for her native Tunisia on Sunday with its first Academy Award if her nominated work Four Daughters triumphs in the Best Documentary category on Sunday.

Liverpool have been handed two further injury blows ahead of Sunday's crunch Premier League title showdown with Manchester City on Sunday after Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez were both withdrawn for Jurgen Klopp's side in Europe.

Rio Ferdinand has snubbed Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland and Bukayo Saka in his shortlist for the Premier League player of the season award. The trio have been among the best performers in the English top flight this season, chalking up a combined 69 goals and assists.

A couple have found a way to beat the high cost of living in the UK by moving to Egypt for their retirement. In September last year, Tony Smith, 57, and his wife Doris, 50, left their home in the Isle of Wight to spend their later years in Hurghada, a beach resort town.

Selome Hailu HBO will premiere the comedy special “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings” on March 23. Per the official description, the trailer sees the actor, writer and comedian “offer his unique reflections on our divided world, the unexpected perils of charitable giving and more,” hitting on topics including “the 2024 presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life.” “I’m done apologizing. I’m done saying that we’re peaceful,” Youssef says in the trailer.

nominated for artist of the ear as well as best pop artist—and she left the audience speechless with her stylistic choices. After betting on and the wonderful styling of Courrèges for , Lipa reunited on for a look that won all the praise.Lipa wore a long leather-effect dress from the Italian house founded by that fit her silhouette perfectly. The upper part of the dress featured a corseted shape with a scoop neckline, as well as straps favoring the shape of the first letter of Versace.

Elodie Yung will be back on TV screens very soon when season three of The Cleaning Lady premieres and fans might be curious to know more about her personal life.

Celeste Barber is coming to North America with the Backup Dancer Tour and is kicking off with a performance at the Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival.

A group of top international journalists have joined forces to demand that Israel and Egypt provide foreign media with “unfettered access” to Gaza.

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation is expanding its executive team under President Bill Damaschke, adding Kim Mackey and Jessie Carbonaro, as EVP of Production Talent and VP of Production Talent, respectively, and elevating Susan Akinbola to VP of Development.

Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan are celebrating the premiere of their new Netflix movie Spaceman!

Thania Garcia Los Angeles-based duo the Driver Era is hitting the road for a 17-city tour across North America. With over three albums to date, brothers Ross and Rocky Lynch will again begin touring on April 2 in Pittsburgh’s Roxian Theatre and hit venues in New York, New Jersey, Quebec and more before wrapping in Toronto on May 8.

Selome Hailu Netflix is no longer adapting Rick Riordan‘s “Kane Chronicles” book series into feature films. Riordan, best known as the author of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” books, shared the news while responding to question from a fan on Goodreads. “Right now, Kane Chronicles is in ‘turnaround,’ which means Netflix has decided not to move forward and their option has lapsed after trying for two years to develop a script they liked,” he wrote.

The House Hunters franchise is expanding with a new spinoff. HGTV has ordered House Hunters: All Stars, set for premiere on Thursday, March 21. The 12-episode series will feature some of the network’s top real estate experts helping prospective buyers find dream properties in their own hometowns.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor In the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” a sky bison makes for the best nap spot, the young cast soon learned. Gordon Cormier, who plays the show’s main character Aang, shared that he and fellow co-stars Kiawentiio and Ian Ousley, who play siblings Katara and Sokka, bonded on set by napping on Appa, Aang’s giant flying bison, for hours at a time between shoots. The trio would end up “kicking one another” to try and secure more space on the furry fake creature, leading to skirmishes and laughs shared afterward.

If you've never been to visit the perfume counters at Selfridges or Harrods, you don't need to, because Molly-Mae Hague is showing exactly what they look like. The former Love Island star took to Instagram last night to give her 7.9 million followers an inside look at her extensive fragrance collection, which features top brands like Tom Ford, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Jo Malone and Chloé.

infamous 2023 ski trial is coming to America. “Gwyneth Goes Skiing” creators Linus Karp and Joseph Martin will reprise their roles as the Goop founder and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson at Utah’s Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Awkward Productions announced Monday. The company did not reveal what dates the show would start in Park City.

UPDATE: Gwyneth Goes Skiing, the stage musical comedy parody of Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous ski trial will slide from London to the United States, via Edinburgh, later this year, with Paltrow’s former Glee co-star Darren Criss lending some pre-recorded vocal tracks.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) has launched a new film fund called Big Time Investment to boost production of quality Arabic movies and announced a slate of Egyptian feature films toplined by a biopic of Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum who is considered the Arab world’s greatest singer. Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, whose epic “Kira and El Gen” about local resistance to British occupation, is recent hit, will direct the film titled “El Set.” Egyptian star Mona Zaki will play Kulthum who from the late 1920s onwards became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times: radio, the phonograph, cinema and television.

K.J. Yossman The musical play inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow‘s now infamous legal battle with Utah optometrist Terry Sanderson is transferring to the U.S, Variety has exclusively learned. But rather than head straight to Broadway, “Gwyneth Goes Skiing” will return to where it all began — Utah — with The Egyptian Theatre in Park City set to host the Awkward Productions show.

Saudi Arabia‘s Film AlUla has announced the construction of a state-of-the-art recording studio, within its recently launched studio complex.