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Tarek Ghanem
Entertainment Reporter
Covers entertainment — Egyptian film and television, music, festivals and streaming, and the productions and performers audiences across the region are actually watching. The beat follows the industry as a business as much as a culture: what gets commissioned, what it costs, who distributes it and why a release lands when it does. Coverage of individuals stays with their work, and nothing about a person's private life is reported because it circulated.
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El Gouna Film Festival opens ninth edition with a career award for Mona Zaki
El Gouna Film Festival opens its ninth edition today on Egypt's Red Sea coast with "All About Corrine" and a Career Achievement Award for Mona Zaki.
15 Oct 2026
Cairo International Film Festival names honourees and jury for 47th edition
CIFF unveiled its Golden Pyramid honourees, competition jury and a world premiere for Ahmed Abdalla's BerleeN ahead of its 50th-anniversary edition.
12 Oct 2026
Egypt Pledges Counterterrorism Support to Burkina Faso in Cairo Talks
Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty pledged counterterrorism support and capacity-building to Burkina Faso's Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré in Cairo on 1 September, alongside trade talks ahead of two Egypt-Africa forums this autumn.
4 Sept 2026
Egypt Sends 269th Gaza Aid Convoy as Ceasefire Violence Kills Three
Egypt's Red Crescent dispatched its 269th Gaza aid convoy on 1 September, carrying 3,750 tonnes and pushing cumulative deliveries past one million tonnes, as Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza City hours later.
3 Sept 2026
Iran War Widens to Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain as Al-Azhar Condemns the Strikes
Al-Azhar and Egypt condemned Iran's strikes on the UAE and Jordan on 31 August. The war then spread to Kuwait and Bahrain as US and Iranian forces traded strikes into September.
3 Sept 2026
Xi in Cairo for his first Egypt visit in a decade: the agenda, as announced
Xi Jinping arrived at Cairo International Airport on Tuesday 1 September and was received by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Daily News Egypt reported the visit runs to 3 September; Ahram Online placed it in the 70th year of diplomatic relations.
2 Sept 2026