The American University in Cairo
Oriental Hall
Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Square, Tahrir Campus, Tel 02 2615 2694/01280009077
Sat 24, 6pm: The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at AUC is celebrating 60 years of the distinguished career of (...)
The Seventh Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
(8-29 March)
The Greek Campus
28 Falaki St, Bab Al-Louk, Downtown, Cairo, Tel 010 90322400
Thurs 22, 8pm: French Lebanese Musician Bashar Mar-Khalifé performs contemporary Electronic Jazz (...)
The American University in Cairo
Oriental Hall
Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Square, Tel 02 2615 2694/012 80009077
Fri 16, 6pm-8pm: “Journalism and the Limits of Political Action”, Journalist at Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper and Head of Al-Dustour (...)
The Seventh Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
(8-29 March)
Rawabet Theatre
3 Hussien El Meaamar St. ext. of Mahmoud Basiouny St., from Talaat Harb Square, Downtown
Before the Revolution theatrical show places audiences in that (...)
The Seventh Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
(8-29 March)
Goethe Institute
17 Hussein Wassef St, Al-Missaha square, Doqqi, Tel 02 3334 7800
Thurs 15, 8pm: Out of Nations band performs with guest musician Hazem Shahin and singer Fayrouz (...)
Beit Al-Sennari
Al Komi, Al Hanafi, El-Sayeda Zainab, Tel 02 2390 9471
Thurs 8, 10am: The Annual Coptic Heritage Day presenting a number of lectures by scholars and professors from The Coptic Studies Programme in Bibliotheca Alexandrina supervised (...)
The Eighth Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children (8-13 March)
Al-Hanager Arts Centre
Cairo Opera House Grounds, El Gezira, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 6861
This year's festival will feature events for university students and parents as (...)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis S, Tel 02 2574 3373
Thurs 8, 8pm: Indian classical music performed by Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan.
The Loom band
Al-Gumhouriya Theatre
12 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Tel 02 2390 7707
Fri 9, 8pm: The renowned (...)
Director of the Museum of Antiquities at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), archaeologist Hussein Abdel-Baseer, signed and spoke about his newly released book, Malekaat Al-Fara'aena (The Queens of the Pharaohs: The Drama of Love and Authority) at (...)
On Thursday, 1 March, Minister of Culture Ines Abdel-Dayem opened the new tale-telling drama play Ahwal Shakhseya (Personal Affairs) at Malak Opera Theatre in Cairo.
The play is a Youth Theatre production about four women and their experiences of (...)
Artistic Creativity Centre Theatre
Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek
Sallem Nafsak (Surrender), a play about the future version of Egypt which turned into a Utopia visited by someone with foul values, Stars number of young talents, Adapted and (...)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis St. Tel 02 2574 3373
Sun 4, 8pm: The Arab Music Heritage Ensemble in a repertoire of Arab music and singing. Thurs 8, 8pm: “The 6th India by the Nile” Festival featuring Amjad Ali Khan.
Beit Al-Seheimi
Al-Muaaz St, (...)
The American University in Cairo
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall New Cairo Campus, Room 2124, Tel 02 2615 2694 Wed 7, 1pm-2pm: “A Close Look at the Step Pyramid Conservation and Restoration Project”, Ministry of Antiquities (...)
On Tuesday 27 February, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Egypt Yoon Yeocheol attended his first public cultural event.
Yeocheol opened the Korean Fans Got Talent (KFGT) competition with few Arabic words then expressed his happiness and (...)
On Tuesday, 20 February, Alexei Bukin, vice president of the Russian Cultural and Science Centre (RCSC) in Dokki, inaugurated “Narratives”, an exhibition by the Egyptian Australia-based painter Bakr El-Shaarawi, in the centre's main exhibition (...)
On Thursday, 22 February, the 11th round of the Cairo International Animation Forum closing ceremony took place at the Hanager Arts Centre in Cairo.
Director of the Cultural Development Fund Fathy Abdel-Wahab and director of the Egyptian Association (...)
Jubilant air filled the Giza Zoo on Thursday after the announcement that the zoo's giraffe Sonson is pregnant.
The zoo's medical team told Ahram Online that a sonar test has shown that both the mother and child are in good health.
The medical team (...)
Artistic Creativity Centre Theatre Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek
Sallem Nafsak (Surrender), a play about the future version of Egypt which turned into a Utopia visited by someone with foul values, Stars number of young talents, Adapted and (...)
The American University in Cairo Oriental Hall Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Square, Tel 02 2615 2694/01280009077 Mon 26, 6pm: Associate professor of practice in the Department of the Arts Dr. Duncan MacDonald delivers a lecture titled, “Ideas as (...)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis St. Tel 02 2574 3373 Thurs 22, 8pm: The Arab Music Heritage Ensemble in a repertoire of classical Arab songs. Sun 25, 8pm: “Wahabiat” concert features The Arab Music Institute Ensemble performing the best of Mohamed (...)
The residents of Cairo's El-Haggana district recently welcomed world-renowned Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos, who visited the mobile medical clinic there as part the Hepatitis C-Free Egypt by 2020 initiative.
The initiative, implemented by (...)
On Saturday 10 February, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture responded to an official invitation to contribute in the 32nd round of the Surajkund Mela Festival in Haryana State in India.
External cultural affairs director at the Ministry of Culture (...)
On Saturday 10 February, Minister of Culture Ines Abdel-Dayem attended the 44th Film Association Festival presided over by Mahmoud Abdel-Samea.
The event, which took place at the Renaissance Cinema in Downtown Cairo, was attended by a number of (...)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis St. Tel 02 2574 3373
Sun 18, 8pm: The Abdel-Halim Noweira Arab Music Ensemble, conducted by maestro Salah Ghoubashi comemorates the anniversary of the death of Umm Kolthoum.
Thurs 22, 8pm: The Arab Music Heritage (...)
Artistic Creativity Centre Theatre
Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek
Sallem Nafsak (Surrender), a play about the future version of Egypt which turned into a Utopia visited by someone with foul values, Stars number of young talents, Adapted and (...)