Thursday 15 December Films screening at Zawya Where to Invade Next at 12pm, 2.30pm and 7.30pm - A Present From the Past at 5pm and 10pm Zawya, behind Odeon Cinema, 4 Abdel Hamid Said, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Screening of Roshmia (Palestine, 2015), 4pm Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Five days of Celebrating Naguib Mahfouz, 7pm El-Hanager Centre, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Layla min Alf Layla, starring Yehia El-Fakharany. Read more about the play here. 8pm Bayram El-Tunsi Theatre, Alexandria Moulid and Christmas concert by Cairo Steps (Egypt/Germany), 8pm Alexandria Opera House, Alexandria (Photo: Still from A Present From The Past) Friday 16 December Special screening of Donor, part of Global Migration Film Festival, 5pm Zawya, behind Odeon Cinema, 4 Abdel Hamid Said, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Tom & Jerry, live on stage. Tickets can be booked online here. 10am Porto Cairo Mall, Ring Road, First Settlement, New Cairo Awtar Quartet concert on occasion of the Mouled, 7pm Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Chopin and Mozart on the Nile, 8pm Cairo Opera House, Arab Music Institute, 22 Ramsis St., Downtown, Cairo Sphinx Orchestra, conducted by Hani Hassan Christmas concert, 8pm Cairo Opera House, Small Hall, Zamalek, Cairo Bas Enta Mesh Shamem play, directed by Abir Lotfy, 8.30pm Miami Theatre, 38 Talaat Harb St., Downtown Cairo Layla Min Alf Layla (Photo: Artistic Theatre House) Saturday 17 December Special screening of Kakuma, part of Global Migration Film Festival, 5pm Zawya, behind Odeon Cinema, 4 Abdel Hamid Said, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Screening films from Alternative Egyptian Cinema (1960-1980), 4pm Cimatheque, 19a Adly St., Downtown Cairo Exhibitions opening: Knights of Dai, by Ahmed Saber, Kareem helmy, Moawiya Hilal and Nagub Moein, and Out of Focus by artist Atef Ahmed, 6pm Dai Gallery, 14 El-Ahrar Street, from Batal Ahmed St., Mohandessin, Cairo Documentary Cinema Salon, with director Ahmed Fouad Darwish, 6pm Creativity Centre, Beyt El-Seheimy, Haret El-Darb El-Asfar, Qism El-Gamaleya, Cairo Metropolitan Opera House in New York Live HD Transmission of L'Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho, 8pm Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Small Theatre, Alexandria Chopin and Mozart on the Nile, 7pm Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Awtar Quartet (Photo: courtesy of Awtar Quartet)
