The Cairo Opera House is teeming with events this week + seafood lovers, you’re welcome.
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Touted as the next South Korean hit, horror-fantasy series Hellbound has landed on Netflix. The show revolves around New Truth Society — a cult that works with otherworldly beings that decide when people will die. Police detective and recent widow Jin Kyeong-hoon gets put on the case to investigate whether the cult is deliberately carrying out mysterious killings. As much as Kyeong-hoon tries, he can’t find an earthly explanation to the otherworldly occurrences. The murders are all intriguing enough to keep you hooked on the show and while the flow is slow at first, the series really captures the characters and delves into their intentions and motives.
⚽ Gameweek 12 of the English Premier League concludes today, with the next match between Manchester City and Everton starting soon at 4pm. Later on in the day Tottenham will face Leeds at 6:30pm.
Speaking of the Premier League: Manchester United has sacked manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after yesterday’s embarrassing 4-1 defeat by Watford, the club’s fifth loss in its last seven PL games.
Meanwhile, don’t miss the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Granada at 5:15pm.
Serie A also has an exciting match today as Inter Milan hosts Napoli at 7pm. The game is Napoli’s chance to be at the top of the league after Milan fell yesterday against Fiorentina, losing 3-4. Meanwhile, Inter is trying hard to reduce the 7-point difference with Milan.
In the Egyptian League: Pharco will play against Ceramica Cleopatra at 5:30pm, before Misr Lel Mekassa hosts Alexandria’s Al Ittihad at 8pm.
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Get premium seafood and more from this online shop: Seasalt Fish has a huge range of offerings from the sea, from fresh locally-sourced fish to imported specialties and ready-to-be-cooked seafood bags. You can get fresh Norwegian salmon, halibut, lobster, mahi-mahi, bottarga, herring, octopus, and more in various cuts, seasonings, and forms. They also sell the French delicacy escargot, with the snails seasoned with garlic butter, as well as all kinds of high-end caviar such as beluga. If you’d like to try them out with less-exotic offerings, get their cold spicy crab dip, cilantro lime wild baby shrimps, salmon tartare, or grouper fish skewers that come with tzatziki sauce. Seasalt fish also has a range of knives so you can really unleash your inner seafood sous-chef.
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Another film festival is brewing in Cairo, with the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival kicking off tomorrow and running until Friday. The international event also takes place in New York and Turkey every year, showing films by avant garde filmmakers in Egypt and around the world. You’ll find a bit of everything displayed on the Cairo Opera House screen, with genres including fiction, documentary, experimental, horror, fantasy, noir, animation, and even music videos. You can learn more about the festival from their website.
There are two days left at the Comic Strips Exhibition hosted by the Belgian Embassy in Cairo at the Al Hanager Arts Centre at the Opera House. The exhibition will feature original drawings from famous Belgian artists, with video interviews showing the process of creating these comics.
Also at the Cairo Opera House, pianist Omar Khairat takes to the stage today and tomorrow at 8pm.
Azza Fahmy is in the spotlight at a talk on Tuesday at AUC Oriental Hall from 6-8pm. She will be joined by Dean of the School of Continuing Education James Ketterer to talk about her design and jewelry brand, with a focus on the newly launched program Jewelry Making Business Management, which is being launched in collaboration with the school.
We previously sat down with the jewelry brand’s Managing Director Fatma Ghali on our podcast, Making It, to talk about the origin story of the business and how they’ve grown it to attract an international audience (listen, runtime: 29:30).
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Duke University professor Dorie Clark debunks the myth of overnight success in her new book The Long Game: Clark coins the term “strategic patience,” which companies should incorporate into their strategy to ensure they don’t grow at a pace that proves itself unsustainable. Instead, strategic patience calls for small, methodological steps that build a strong foundation for every new move, product, or service introduced that ensures that the business boasts quality and resilience. Clark breaks down what this kind of thinking would look like in different business situations through company case studies and personal experiences. She also takes the time to implement the strategy on a more personal level outside the workplace to really drive home the point that sometimes slow and steady really is the key to coming out on top in the race. Clark goes into the importance of strategic thinking in this interview with Forbes.