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Get a tour of the world’s national parks — with Obama as your guide: Our Great National Parks is a five-part Netflix documentary series hosted and produced by former US President Barack Obama. The series highlights a few of world’s most astounding national parks, spanning five continents, and the wildlife that reside there, stressing the importance of the synergy between humans, plants, and animals.The show opens with Obama’s home state of Hawaii, then takes us through a journey of some of the countries where he grew up. Later episodes he visits parks in Indonesia and in Kenya, his father’s birthplace.The visuals are breathtaking, with alternating overhead drone footage and close-ups of the animals. The former POTUS makes an on-camera appearance at the beginning of each episode and provides a calm and soothing yet engaging narration throughout.

⚽ No Afcon in 2023: Next June’s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Ivory Coast has been postponed until winter 2024, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said in a statement. The tournament, which was supposed to take place from 23 June to 23 July, will now take place in January and February 2024 due to the rainy season in Ivory Coast.

But we’re getting the African Super League: The African Super League will kick off in August 2023 with a prize money of USD 100 mn, Motsepe said. CAF is “engaging with stakeholders over the next few weeks to discuss the mechanics of the tournament”. There’s still no word on which clubs will be participating from how many countries. Announced last year, the league was meant to be CAF’s answer to the African Champions League, though we still have no idea how.

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Don’t miss Ein L Aql, a collaborative project between Alexandrian musician and composer Bassem Diaa and music producer Amro Zidan. Their album titled ‘El A’sara’ debuts at Makan tonight from 8pm to 10pm.

It’s salsa night at Cairo Jazz Club tonight every other Monday, with one-hour lessons start at 8pm. Our friend and salsa aficionado Rasha Sadek leads the lessons along with Salah Eissa from Soul Motion Dance Studio.

Catch theater troupe Regency’s take on ‘Carmen’ tonight at 7pm at El Sawy Culturewheel in Zamalek.

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Acting as therapy — the Viola Davis: To anyone who hasn’t lived under a rock in the past 10 years, Viola Davis — the 2016 Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards — is a mainstay of critically acclaimed television and acting projects (there’s a whole Wikipedia page just on her awards and nominations). Fans of her work (particularly Doubt, Widows, the Help) should recognize themes of poverty, gender and racial abuse that are prevalent in her work. That is no coincidence, as her autobiography Finding Me: A Memoir shows how she channeled those similar experiences from her traumatic past into her work as a form of therapy. In it, Davis narrates how the choice of becoming an actress had the power to heal the broken. “All that was inside me that I couldn’t work out in my life, I could channel it all in my work and no one would be the wiser,” she adds. All in all, it paints a nuanced picture of one of the best thespians of our day.