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Get started on binge-watching the Best Picture Oscar nominees with the beautifully-made CODA. Available on AppleTV, the comedy-drama film follows 17-year-old Ruby — a child of deaf adults (CODA) — as she navigates the coming-of-age challenges of choosing between her future and personal passion, and her obligations towards her family. As the only hearing person in her family, Ruby (played by Emilia Jones) is responsible for being her family’s interpreter and works on her family’s fishing boat. She joins her school’s choir club, where she discovers her “latent passion” for singing and is encouraged to pursue musical education. The film “offers few surprises, but strong representation and a terrific cast,” Rotten Tomatoes says.

⚽ It’s a busy night in the Premier League, where three separate matches kick off at 9:45pm: Manchester City v Brentford, Tottenham v Southampton, and Norwich City v. Crystal Palace. Aston Villa and Leeds United will also hit the field at 10pm.

The Egyptian Premier League also has a few matches today, with El Makassa going head to head against Enppi at 5:30pm, while El Gaish v El Gouna has an 8pm kickoff.

Chelsea and Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal are battling it out at 6:30pm for a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup final match. The victor of tonight’s semi-final will meet Brazil’s Palmeiras, while the loser will be up against Al Ahly FC to determine the third and fourth spot finishers.

The Coppa Italia quarter-final match between Milan and Lazio kicks off at 10pm.

Over in the Coupe de France, Nice and Marseille will meet at 10:15pm in the championship’s quarter-final.

Last but not least, Spain’s Copa del Rey will see Rayo Vallecano and Real Betis meet in the semi-final at 10pm.

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Gezira Art Center kicks off four art exhibitions today, including a retrospective exhibition of artwork by the late Elghoul Ahmed, Nagat Farouk’s When I Was Little, Legends from Beirut by Shayma Kamel, and Towards a New Primitivity by Emad Abuzeid. The exhibitions open at 7pm at the Zamalek center today and will wrap on Thursday, 24 February.

The Contemporary Image Collective in downtown is hosting Cairo University arts and culture professor Salma Mubarak for a talk about how Egyptian cinema transcended the country’s borders and played a political role as a form of soft diplomacy in the mid-1900s.

It’s shaaby night at Cairo Jazz Club 610 in Sheikh Zayed, with DJ Totti, 3enab, and Abo Sahar each set to take the stage from 7-10pm. Reservations are required.

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The Girl With the Braided Hair: A tale of parallel love stories in contemporary and Napoleonic era Egypt: Originally titled Shaghaf and penned in Arabic by Rasha Adly, the novel follows the lives of two women centuries apart. Yasmine, an art historian living in post-2011 Egypt, attempts to discover the identity of the subject of a painting from the French occupation. Her story becomes intertwined with that of Zeinab, who became the subject of a love triangle during the Napoleonic occupation. The novel’s translation by Sara Enany was awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.