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Eid Al Adha Films in Egypt Lure People with Comedy, Suspense

Eid Al Adha Films in Egypt Lure People with Comedy, Suspense
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Eid Al Adha Films in Egypt Lure People with Comedy, Suspense

Eid Al Adha Films in Egypt Lure People with Comedy, Suspense

Comedy and action movies are competing during Eid Al Adha holiday in Egypt to lure the largest number of spectators to the box office with light comedy or suspense and action. The season can be described as star-studded with names including Tamer Hosny, Ahmed Fahmi, Amir Karara, and Karim Abdel Aziz, alongside Hana el-Zahed and Yasmine Sabri.

Sources of production companies confirmed that four films are partaking in the Eid Al Adha season so far: “Mister X”, “Taj”, “Al Booboo”, and “Bait Al Roubi”. The company behind Mohamed Ramadan’s “A’ Zero” apologized for not taking part in the season because the “post-shooting phases such as montage, audio mixing, and soundtracks are not finished yet,” the company said in a press release.

Actor Ahmed Fahmi and his wife, actress Hana el-Zahed are co-starring “Mister X”, which revolves around marital struggles and the couple’s desire to recover their freedom after marriage in a comic frame. In the movie, men characters appear like “victims of unmerciful creatures represented by women.”

The title of the film recalls the ‘Mister X’ character previously played by late actor Fouad el-Mohandes in his film “The Most Dangerous Man in the World” (1967), and “The Return of the Most Dangerous Man in the World” (1973).

“Taj” combines comedy and romance in a love story between the film’s two main actors, Tamer Hosny and Dina el-Sherbiny. The plot of the movie is based on a Marvel-like superhero story. According to critics, “the production company spent a huge budget to bring high-end visual effects and graphics”

“Al Booboo” bets on the fame of Amir Karara, a star who brought great revenues in former action movies such as “Casablanca”.

The new film tells the story of Sultan, a former outlaw who’s being chased by a gang despite giving up on his old life. Then, a pharmacist (Yasmine Sabri) appears to add some comedy to the work.

“Bait Al Roubi” combines action and comedy with the character of Ibrahim al-Roubi (Karim Abdel Aziz) who leaves Cairo to live in peace in a far city, but then he is forced to return to the capital and live several adventures with his younger brother (Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz).

Film critic Ahmed Saad said “the comedy-action mix is the best choice for the Eid audience looking for light productions with a rich dose of laughter and entertainment and a touch of action and suspense that helps avoid boredom.”

“Laughter has become a common factor in Eid films, even in works based on action or romance. Comedy is an unavoidable touch in all Egyptian productions in the meantime,” he told Asharq Al-Awsat.

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Muddy Footprints Suggest 2 Species of Early Humans Were Neighbors in Kenya 1.5 Million Years Ago

An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya in 2022. AP
An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya in 2022. AP
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Muddy Footprints Suggest 2 Species of Early Humans Were Neighbors in Kenya 1.5 Million Years Ago

An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya in 2022. AP
An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya in 2022. AP

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.
The footprints were left in the mud by two different species “within a matter of hours, or at most days,” said paleontologist Louise Leakey, co-author of the research published Thursday in the journal Science.
Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree – called Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei – lived about the same time in the Turkana Basin.
But dating fossils is not exact. “It’s plus or minus a few thousand years,” said paleontologist William Harcourt-Smith of Lehman College and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was not involved in the study.
Yet with fossil footprints, “there’s an actual moment in time preserved,” he said. “It’s an amazing discovery.”
The tracks of fossil footprints were uncovered in 2021 in what is today Koobi Fora, Kenya, said Leaky, who is based at New York's Stony Brook University.
Whether the two individuals passed by the eastern side of Lake Turkana at the same time – or a day or two apart – they likely knew of each other’s existence, said study co-author Kevin Hatala, a paleoanthropologist at Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
“They probably saw each other, probably knew each other was there and probably influenced each other in some way,” The Associated Press quoted him as saying.
Scientists were able to distinguish between the two species because of the shape of the footprints, which holds clues to the anatomy of the foot and how it’s being used.
H. erectus appeared to be walking similar to how modern humans walk – striking the ground heel first, then rolling weight over the ball of the foot and toes and pushing off again.
The other species, which was also walking upright, was moving “in a different way from anything else we’ve seen before, anywhere else,” said co-author Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, a human evolutionary anatomist at Chatham.
Among other details, the footprints suggest more mobility in their big toe, compared to H. erectus or modern humans, said Hatala.
Our common primate ancestors probably had hands and feet adapted for grasping branches, but over time the feet of human ancestors evolved to enable walking upright, researchers say.
The new study adds to a growing body of research that implies this transformation to bipedalism – walking on two feet — didn’t happen at a single moment, in a single way.
Rather, there may have been a variety of ways that early humans learned to walk, run, stumble and slide on prehistoric muddy slopes.
“It turns out, there are different gait mechanics – different ways of being bipedal,” said Harcourt-Smith.