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Netflix is moving into Egyptian drama with an adaptation of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's Paranormal. The SVOD service has ordered the Middle Eastern series, which will be produced by Mohamed Hefzy and Amr Salama with the latter directing and showrunning. The series is set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and…

Audiences from around the world witnessed history on the Discovery show Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live, as a team of Egyptian archaeologists and explores uncovered a 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest. The two-hour live event also uncovered antiquities, including a mysterious wax head and two other mummies. "This…

Nearly six years after anti-Islam video Innocence Of Muslims became the center of an international storm, Egypt's top court has ordered authorities to block YouTube in the country for one month. The ruling came on Saturday after a lengthy appeals process over the short film/trailer that ridicules the Prophet Mohammad…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Sheikh Jackson, the Michael Jackson-themed pic that Egypt has selected as its entry into the Oscar Foreign Language Film race. The movie was an official selection at last month’s Toronto Film Festival, and now an early 2018 theatrical release is…

Egyptian state television has stoked a firestorm of criticism domestically and internationally after suspending eight on-air female talent and ordering them to lose weight. The women, including Channel 2 host Khadija Khattab (pictured above) who has asked viewers to judge for themselves whether she deserves her job…

Australian journalist Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera English reporter jailed in Egypt on charges of spreading false news, has been released from prison and deported out of the country, according to state media sources. Greste, a former BBC reporter and Peabody Award winner, along with fellow Al-Jazeera journalists…

Update, Jan 5, 4:18 PM – Human Rights lawyer Amal Clooney has released a statement calling for the immediate release of her client, the Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy. Fahmy is one of the three Al-Jazeera English journalists currently in prison in Egypt, having been found guilty of spreading false…

EXCLUSIVE: Where Noah failed, Moses is trying to get past Egyptian censors. Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods And Kings might be facing a tough fight with Egypt's highest religious authority Al-Azhar to get approved ahead of the film's planned December release in the Arab world's most populous country, but help could be at…

Today’s sentencing of two Al Jazeera English journalists to seven years in jail, and another to 10 years, defies “logic, sense, and any semblance of justice,” Al Anstey, Al Jazeera English managing director,  said.  An Egyptian court sentenced the three journalists on charges including aiding the Muslim Brotherhood…