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Criminal: UK is a Netflix police drama — just without the usual car chases or action shots. Instead, each 45-minute episode is set entirely within the confines of a single interrogation room, with a specialized interrogative unit of the Metropolitan Police questioning a suspect of crimes ranging from assault and murder to migrant smuggling. We are never shown the suspect’s backstory or the events leading up to the crime, leaving us with only the suspect’s words, mannerisms, and body language to judge their innocence — and the gripping psychological back-and-forths made us change our minds several times throughout. Standout episodes include Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington playing a an estate agent accused of rape and Kunal Nayyar (Raj from the Big Bang Theory sans the fake accent) portraying an imprisoned business man trying to negotiate his way out of being charged with a second murder. The interrogators’ personal side stories, taking place behind the interrogation room’s one-way mirrored glass window, tie the episodes together nicely.

⚽ In the Egyptian Premier League: Farco will face Eastern Company at 6:30pm, followed by two games kicking off at 9 pm: Al Ittihad Al Sakandary v Al Masry and Misr El Makasa v Enppi.

Over in handball, it’s the big Egypt v Cape Verde showdown: Egypt's handball team will play against Cape Verde today in the African Men’s Championship final at 9 pm. The Pharaohs sealed their spot in the final after beating Tunisia, while Cape Verde scored a momentous achievement by reaching the final for the first time in its history after defeating Morocco. Egypt (the reigning champion) has faced Tunisia in the last three African finals, and earned the title twice, including in 2016 and 2020. Our national team is looking to secure their eighth title, in efforts to catch up with the historical champion Tunisia, who’= have landed 10 titles.

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The Al-Tannoura Heritage Dance Troupe is performing the original Egyptian version of whirling dervishes in AUC Tahrir tonight at 8 pm.

If you want to be the one doing the dancing, Cairo Jazz Club 610 is hosting Salsa Night at 8pm, the one hour class is instructed by Soul Motion Studio’s dance gurus Rasha Sadek and Salah Eissa.

The Wannabe Comedians are taking over the Tap West’s stage at 9 pm tonight. The lineup features Egyptian comedians Mohamed Halawa, Pola Samuel, Youssef Gallad, Ghada Salah, and Karim Elkhorieby.

Calling on all Maroon5 fans: Tribute band Like Jagger is performing tonight at 10pm at the Cairo Cellar, located in Zamalek’s President Hotel.

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Why can’t we pay attention anymore? US college students can now only focus on a task for just 65 seconds, while office workers on average can manage to maintain their focus for three minutes, making our attention spans shorter than any other time in human history. We are constantly distracted as online ads and various screens vie for our attention. After taking a trip around the world and speaking to leading scientists and experts, British journalist Johann Hari outlines his findings on what happened to our collective attention — and, more importantly, how we can get it back — in Stolen Focus. His journey takes him from an office in New Zealand that found a special way to maintain workers’ productivity, all the way to a favela in Rio de Janeiro where residents have completely lost their focus in a peculiar way, to Silicon Valley, where he meets some of the Big Tech players that designed key aspects of the digital world we live in today (features like the infinite scroll) and finds out how they discovered a way to hack humans’ attention.