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Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded film The French Dispatch is “a love letter to journalists.” The anthology film portrays the American staff of the French office of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper as they publish the French Dispatch’s final issue. The weekly magazine and a few of its stories (although highly dramaticized) were inspired by the early days of The New Yorker. The editor of the magazine unexpectedly dies of a heart attack and leaves the staff instructions in his will to suspend publication of the magazine following a final issue that is to include his obituary, three stories, and a travel guide. The film portrays the three stories, with each piece taking place in its own time period in Ennui-sur-Blasé (a fictional French town, which translates to boredom-on-apathy). The first story, “The Concrete Masterpiece,” portrays an incarcerated genius modern artist serving a life sentence. The second, “Revisions to a Manifesto,” is inspired by the May 68 student protests in France. “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” follows the kidnapping of the police commissioner's son. The film is available on Disney+ or Amazon Prime.

⚽ In the Egyptian Premier League tonight: Ghazl El Mahalla plays against Pyramids FC at 6:40pm, while Zamalek plays against Misr Lel Makassa at 9pm — which is also the same time for the Al Bank Al Ahly v Pharco kickoff.

The White Knights are now closer than ever: Zamalek (69 points) need to come out on top in three games out of a remaining five in the league to clinch the title regardless of the results of rivals Pyramids (62 points) and Al Ahly (59 points with a postponed game to play).

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Marzipan serves up authentic Egyptian dishes in a high-end setting. The restaurant’s breakfast menu offers up classics like shakshouka and Egyptian feteer served with molasses, white cheese, cream, foul, falafel and pita bread. The lunch and dinner menu includes all the classics from molokhia to sharkaseya but we recommend the “knuckles fattah” (fatet kaware3), which is truly delicious, and the baked rice (roz me3ammar) with pigeons. While you can definitely get these classics at a lower price point, the freshness of the ingredients and luxurious experience is worth the extra penny. With branches in Park Street and White by the Waterway, the restaurant’s interiors pay tribute to Egyptian cinema’s golden era, with framed vintage photographs of stars like Faten Hamama and Omar El Sherif.

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Experience Tahteeb, an art form and sport that dates all the way back to ancient Egypt, at AUC Tahrir tonight at 8pm. The night starts out with the screening of 30-minute documentary El-Bab (The Door) directed by Abdel Fattah Kamal, followed by a performance by the Medhat Fawzy Center for the Stick Arts, a folklore music and dance group from El Warsha Theater Troupe.

Kadim Al Sahir is performing at the Cairo Opera house at 8pm tonight.

BubbleGum Kollectiv are taking over Cairo Jazz 610’s Tuesday Midweek Party, playing upbeat pop hits at 9pm.

Catch alternative rock band Stigma at Room Art Space New Cairo at 9pm.

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Fooled by Randomness: The fallibility of human knowledge. The book, a standalone piece in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s five volume series, The Incerto, argues that humans underestimate the impact of randomness and downplay the role of luck in the outcomes of events, often explaining them away as skills and determinism. He points out that this is especially evident in the stock market, where it is very likely that an unskilled investor, whom he refers to as a “lucky idiot” can have years of success due to the inherent randomness of stock market price movements. The book also tackles other biases such as survivorship bias and skewed distributions and how they play into the decisions we make.