Reem Nabil, Co-founder of @comedysett: "A woman is not expected to be funny. When she does comedy, she is always put in a certain frame where if you just hinted at something sensitive and said your ...

Peacock has partnered with Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman to develop the brand new comedy-drama series titled Cleo, which will take place in ancient Egypt. The project will center ...

Bassem Youssef likes to swear. In his new book, "Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring," Youssef uses the F-word as any number of parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, even a ...

Egypt has selected Omar Hilal’s comedy Voy! Voy! Voy! as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Oscars. Producers Vox Studios, Film Clinic and Image Nation Abu Dhabi announced ...

SAHEL SELIM, Egypt (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a small village 45 minutes from the city of Assiut, in southern Egypt, a group of farmers and their families gathered to watch a theater ...

The late Egyptian comedy director was born in 1913 and died in 1972, leaving a legacy of nearly 60 films In the northernmost part of Egypt, precisely in Damietta governorate, 105 years ago a boy was ...

Funnyman Kevin Hart is known for his upbeat and comedic antics and, as many know, Hart has some great movies under his belt. But that hasn’t stopped the stand-up superstar from courting his fair share ...

Egyptian comedy “Beit El Ruby,” about social media’s disruptive impact on the life of a quirky family, has scored a strong opening weekend in Saudi Arabia, ousting “The Flash,” in its second frame, ...

Amid growing tension at the approach of the June 30 anniversary of Mohammed Morsi’s assumption of Egypt’s presidency, Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” appeared on Egyptian ...

Yousry Nasrallah is one of Egypt’s most highly regarded filmmakers, know for depicting his country’s social and political complexities in multi-layered movies such as “Gate of the Sun” (2004), ...