Minister of Antiquities Khaled Anani, ambassadors of foreign countries and members of the House of Representatives will celebrate the Egyptian museum’s 115th anniversary in Cairo’s downtown on Tuesday. Head of the Museums Sector, Elham Salah, said that the Ministry of Antiquities will open a two-week exhibition to display 86 antiquities including artifacts used for laying the museum’s foundation stone, including a bowl of wood decorated with silver, a trowel, a hammer, an inkwell and a quill pin with which the museum’s foundational document was written.

The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) issued a warning for consumers against fraudulent promotions during Black Friday, calling on consumers to verify the validity of discount offers before purchasing, and to not buy excessively under the pretext of ‘offers or discounts’. The head of the agency, Atef Yacoub, said in a press statement on Thursday that the CPA will take legal action against the violating companies on charges of misleading advertising, if they are found to trick consumers by offering fake offers for products during Black Friday.

A delegation of foreign diplomats visited the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on Sunday, inspecting the ongoing construction work in an effort raise the project s profile ahead of its opening in 2018. The 150 diplomats from the Egyptian Diplomatic Club were given a guided tour of the site overlooking the Giza Plateau, including the conservation and research center and the main building, which is still being built.

The 39th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival opened Tuesday night at El-Manara Hall in New Cairo with an extensive lineup of films and awards, but some disappointing shortcomings on opening night. Among the highlights of the opening ceremony was the attendance of renowned English actress Elizabeth Hurley as a guest of honour. Hurley received an honourary award presented to her by the ceremony s host Asser Yassin.

The fifth International Conference on Endodontic Therapy (a procedure commonly known as a "root canal") will take place at Cairo s Dusit Thani Lake View Hotel from 5 to 8 December under the auspices of Dr. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Egypt s Minister of Scientific Reseach and Higher Education. Dr Khaled Abdel Ghaffar,Egyptian Minister of Scientific Reseach and Higher Education The head of this year s conference will be Dr. Salsabyl Ibrahim, professor of Endodontics at Cairo University and one of the leading pioneers in the field in the Arab word.

The wreckages of three vessels dating back to the Roman era were discovered during excavations in the Mediterranean Sea carried out by an Egyptian mission in cooperation with the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology at the Eastern Port of Alexandria, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa al-Waziry announced. Waziry added in a press statement Tuesday that the mission also discovered a royal head of crystal dating back to the Roman era, three gold coins from the era of Emperor Octavius Augustus in the Gulf of Abuquir in Alexandria, as well as a boat made of lead for the god Osiris in the sunken city of Heraklion city in the Gulf of Abuquir, Alexandria.

A 500-year-old painting believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci has sold for $450.3 million in New York, blazing a new world record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction, Christie’s said. “Salvator Mundi” or “Savior of the World,” which depicts Jesus Christ, more than doubled the previous record of $179.4 million paid for Pablo Picasso’s “The Women of Algiers (Version O)” in New York in 2015.

Egypt has the best reputation of Arab countries and the 40th best globally, according to a new global public perception survey conducted by market research institute GFK. The survey, officially called the Anholt-GFK Nation Brands Index, measures global perceptions of 50 countries in the fields of exports, governance, culture, population, tourism, immigration, and investment.

School Life, an intimate and up-close study of an Irish boarding school, was among the documentaries screened during the 10th Panorama of the European film in Cairo this month. Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane, the film won the Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Best Film at the Visions du Réel Festival International de Cinema Nyon, and was nominated for another four awards, including the Grand Jury prize at Sundance.

Egyptian film “Balash Tebousny” (Kiss Me Not) is to participate at the 14th Dubai International Film Festival running from 6 to 13 December. The film stars young actress Yasmine Ra ees and co-stars Mohamed Mahran and Salwa Mohamed Ali, featuring guest stars including actress Sawsan Badr, the late director Mohamed Khan and director Khairy Beshara. The film, written and directed by Ahmed Aamer, tells the story of a young director who is having a hard time dealing with the actress and producer of his latest film, as their stubbornness causes them to refuse accepting other points of view.

Egypt s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany is set to inaugurate on Wednesday evening the exhibition of Tutankhamun s unseen treasures at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where the golden sheets of Tutankhamun will be on display for the first time ever. The event will be attended by foreign and Egyptian Egyptologists as well as members of the media and government officials.

Egyptian short film “Wanas” (Affability) won the Bronze Tanit award for short films at the Carthage Film festival (CIFF) in Tunis. Directed by Ahmed Nader, the 22-minute production stars Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra and Ragaa Hussein as a married couple in their eighties who try to reawaken their lives after the husband is struck by illness.

When the Egyptian cinema industry first put Hind Rostom s name on a film poster back in 1955, the Alexandrian girl, born on 12 November 1929, had already spent nine whole years without acknowledgement. Before this pivotal day in her artistic career, upon which she was to appear in her first lead role in "Prostitutes," she had already acted in twenty-three film roles -- ranging from extra to supporting -- since her debut in "Flowers and Thorns." Although Hind Rostom began her cinematic career almost at the same time as Faten Hamama began hers in “Dunia” (1946), and Shadia hers in “The Mind on Vacation” (1947), and years before the beginnings of Magda in “Felfel” (1949) and Mariam Fakhr-Eddine in “A Passionate Night” (1951), all of them preceded her in being casted as leading ladies. So why did Hind have to wait nine years?

During excavation work carried out at the Deir Al-Banat (Al-Banat Monastery) archaeological site in Fayoum, an Egyptian-Russian mission from the Russian Institute for Oriental Studies discovered a wooden Graeco-Roman sarcophagus with a mummy inside. Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the sarcophagus is in poor condition, with cracks all over its lid and base. The mummy, however, is well-preserved.

A lawyer has filed a claim against the Egyptian singer, Sherine Abdel Wahab, accusing her of insulting Egypt and tarnishing its national image during her concert performance in Lebanon on Monday. The lawyer, Samir Sabry, made a claim stating: “at a time when all the state agencies are working to restore tourism, singer Sherine Abdel Wahab has ridiculed [Egypt] in a mean way while giving a concert in Lebanon, when she responded to fan, who requested that she sings Mashrebtesh min Nelha , by saying you will catch bilharzia. ”

The Egyptian film “Photocopy” will be screened at the closing ceremony of the Arab Cinema Week in New York on November 23. The event is organized by Moviepigs, an online platform streaming Arabic indie films.

“The World” (Jia Zhangke, 2004) is a two-hour portrait of life at the Beijing World Park; a vast attraction on the outskirts of the Chinese capital, divided into continents with miniatures of major global landmarks and performances from each region. While the park is host to an influx of tourists, “The World” is a sprawling account of the enclosed lives of the staff – lives that scarcely venture beyond the boundaries of the park.

Comedian Louis C.K. has been accused of sexual misconduct toward several women, including masturbating in front of them to their horror and embarrassment, according to a report in The New York Times. Comedians Dana Min Goodman, Abby Schachner, Julia Wolov, Rebecca Corry allege the Emmy-winning star of FX’s “Louie” either pleasured himself in front of them, asked to do it or did so over the phone. A fifth woman detailed her allegations against C.K. to the paper but was not identified.

Former Real Madrid star, Michel Salgado, landed in Egypt on Saturday to participate in the Egyptian Tour n’ Cure campaign that aims to eradicate Hepatitis C. After launching a campaign to fight hepatitis C virus domestically, Egypt launched a program to help the estimated 71 million people afflicted with the disease worldwide.

The Egyptian film Cactus Flower has been selected to compete in the Muhr Awards feature section in the 14th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), that commences on December 6. Directed by Hala al-Koussy, the film stars Menna al-Batrawy, Arfa Abdelrasoul, Salma Samy, Mostafa Darwish, and Farah Youssef.

On the sidelines of the World Youth Forum in Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai Governor Khaled Fouda met on Wednesday evening with the French Ambassador to Cairo Stephane Roumtier, along with the French military attachee to Cairo, and the French honorary consul in Sharm el-Sheikh. Roumtier congratulated the governor on the success of the forum and its good organization and expressed his happiness for attending it. He also mentioned the successful visit of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to France two weeks ago and the fruitful cooperation the two countries enjoys, especially on the economic and military levels.