Ready for a weekend full of entertainment? Here are Marhaba’s weekly watch, read and playlist recommendations featuring some of the best new TV series, movies, books, and music.

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Queen Cleopatra
Netflix, 10 May

This docu-series follows the life of the iconic Queen Cleopatra as she rises into power. Queen Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history, but over time, the ancient Egyptian ruler has been misrepresented and she has become more well-known for her relationships with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony than for her fierce intellect and strategic genius. To focus the limelight on the real Queen Cleopatra, Jada Pinkett Smith has produced and narrated this Netflix docu-drama to uncover the truth about this powerful woman.

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The Mother
Netflix, 12 May

‘The Mother’ features Jennifer Lopez as a woman pushed to the limit by incomprehensible violence. Now, she is a vicious assassin: trained to kill. She lives in isolation, evading the shadows of her past. Until they discover her ultimate weakness – the daughter she had given up year’s before. Now, the girl has been discovered and captured by the dangerous men stalking her mother. While she intends to keep her daughter safe from a life of crime, violence, and danger, she has no choice but to step out of the shadows.

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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, and follows three generations of a family from 1900 – 1977, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning — and in Kerala, water is everywhere.

In 1900 at the beginning of this tale, a twelve-year-old girl grieving the death of her father, is sent to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.

From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

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The Album
The Jonas Brothers

The Jonas Brothers are back! ‘The Album’ is the sixth album the pop rock band have made and their first one in four years, and so much has changed in that time. ‘The Album’ focuses largely on their new experiences – as husbands, new fathers and as brothers. They also teased that they were inspired by the Bee Gees for their new album saying that the band were a huge influence to them growing up.

Author: Weslee Dizon, Charlotte Wright

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