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After the high of a near-win at the Africa Cup of Nations, we\u2019re back to the sorry reality that is our domestic football season<\/strong>. Ahly and Zamalek face off at 6:00pm CLT this evening for the Egyptian Super Cup, which is being held in the UAE for the second time. Ahram Online<\/a> says the national team\u2019s players have already re-joined their respective clubs. If you, like some of us, are more into the odd-shaped ball, round two of rugby\u2019s Six Nations gets underway on Saturday<\/strong> with matches between Ireland and Italy and the always exciting encounter of Wales vs England. The French and Scots face off on Sunday.<\/p>\n

One thing to make you look forward to the end of the week for is that the second season of \u201cBns,\u201d one of our favorite TV shows<\/a>, starts a week from Sunday. But if you\u2019re reading this in Amreeka and are a Showtime subscriber, you can catch episode one tonight online. And if you\u2019re on the east coast \u2014 say, anywhere between New York City and the south coast of Newfoundland\u2014 you\u2019ll want to load up the iPad with as many episodes of your favourite show as possible, with reports suggesting power outages are a possibility as a blizzard dumps 10-14 inches of snow atop your fair lands.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re recovering from a long work week, find some joy in the notion your week was probably better than Karl Pilkington\u2019s when he visited Egypt <\/strong>a few years back as part of the An Idiot abroad series and was unwittingly made to feast on \u201cbeef [redacted]\u201d<\/a> (runtime 03:40). Otherwise, just read this, go spend time with friends and family, romp around in the outdoors, and maybe catch the last day of the Cairo International Book Fair at the Nasr City fairgrounds and find yourself a new book, or a dozen, there (we\u2019re currently reading Gloria Steinem\u2019s excellent memoir, My Life on the Road<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Also, we will be kind enough to remind you it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day on Tuesday<\/strong> and that you might need to prepare something for it other than this Netflix special with \u201cthe world\u2019s greatest lover,\u201d Michael Bolton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not celebrating Valentine\u2019 Day? <\/strong>Bask in it by staying home and learning how to make the world\u2019s longest-flying paper airplane<\/a> (watch, runtime: 0:44 courtesy the Harvard Graduate School of Design) as folded by The Paper Airplane Guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the stories on our to-be-read list this weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n