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Shahid’s Wesh Wa Dahr starring Eyad Nassar and Riham Abdel Ghaffour is most definitely a charming watch. The series follows a lowly employee at a pharma company (Nassar) who in a spate of rebellion and out of frustration with his life steals some money and moves to Tanta (who wouldn’t sympathize). He starts a medical practice there and hires an assistant (Abdel Ghaffour), who too, is fleeing from a past. The pair play a game of cat and mouse out of fear that one would expose the other’s fake identity. If you’re a sucker for attention to details, drama, and a bit of comedy along the line, this series is not to miss. (watch trailer, runtime: 1:21).

It’s unfortunate that you can’t binge: We’re still at Episode 4 of the 10-episode series (Shahid releases two episodes weekly) and it’s still holding up strong.

⚽ A little local football watch: The Egypt Cup’s Round 16 continues tonight, with Talea El Geish clashing with Suez at 6pm, while Pyramids FC going head to head with Ceramica Cleopatra at 9pm.

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Get transported to the streets of mid-century Rio de Janeiro through the big screen: Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s 2002 classic City of God is screening tonight at 8pm at Founders Spaces in Downtown Cairo. The screening marks the final installment of Kino Cairo’s Cinema & The City series, which showed five urban classics across the city. We don’t know much about these guys yet, but we’re intrigued and we ‘ll definitely be following to see what they do next.

Our firm favorites the Mazaher Ensemble are back with their Zar music in time for Eid. Um Sameh, Um Hassan and Nour El Sabah are among the last remaining performers of Zar in the country. The event will take place from 8pm at Makan (Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts) in Downtown.

Hip-hop ft mahraganat at CJC 610: Brace yourself for the Softat collective tonight at 9pm at CJC 610 in Sheikh Zayed. The first round of Softat’s club night features big names in the local producing scene: Collective members Molotof, Besh, and SoloFan are all in the line-up, with 200 Shams and Brooklyn-based Egyptian DJ Yas Meen Selectress dropping their beats as guests.

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A slightly different world with all the same problems: As the long holiday approaches, it’s the perfect moment to put down the business books and turn to some fiction. The best lit, in our opinion, takes you to another world in order to shine a fresh light on what’s going on in our own — and Japanese author Yoko Tawada does exactly that in her latest novel, Scattered All Over The Earth. In Tawada’s not-too-distant future, Japan has been swallowed by rising sea levels and US migrants flock to Mexico’s booming economy in search of work. Our protagonist in this topsy-turvy world is Hiruko, who may be the last surviving Japanese person on Earth and goes on a quest through Europe to find another native speaker of her lost language. The author lives in Berlin and writes in both Japanese and German, and this novel, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, both plays with language and asks how and why it is so central to our identities. If it sounds tough, it isn’t: Tawada’s wry humor that keeps you turning the pages. See what the New York Times and the Financial Times had to say.