The American University in Cairo Sat 18, 8pm: “Ladies of Letters:Yara Khoury Nammour”, Lebanese graphic designer Yara Khoury Nammour is the third speaker is for the July TYPE talk series ‘Ladies of Letters.' Stay tuned for this live talk with Nammouron Instagram. Nammour is an award-winning Lebanese graphic designer, type designer, academic and author. She holds a Master's Degree in Art and Design at Middlesex University in the UK. She worked as a design director at Al Mohtaraf, between 2001 and 2017. Yara has taught as a part-time instructor in several universities and is currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut. For 20 years, she has been an inspiring educator whose students have moved on to become some of the most influential Arab type designers in the world today.
Cervantes Institute The Virtual Reading Club of Cervantes Institute, which provides the opportunity to read and discuss a literary book via the Internet, continues in July. The reading club is a platform to read a set of distinguished works from the Spanish and Latin American literature that speak the Spanish language. TheInstitute in Cairo has also modified its course programme to suit the current circumstances by offering its courses online.
Goethe Institute Goethe InstituteCairo offers its courses online. Try it for yourself and make sure that online courses lead to the same success as traditional classes. You can enjoy the institute's home-learning offers on its official website. On Onleihe, you can find German films, music and books for free. All information is readily available on the Corona page. The Goethe Institutewebsite is at https://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/ar/sta/kai/kur/onk.html
The Italian Cultural Institute The Institute in Cairooffers daily multimedia content in several categories representative of the best of the Italian cultural industries, including literature, language, art, cinema, and archeology. To stay updated follow these digital contents and connect to the institute's official Facebook page: Italian Cultural Institute and Archaeological Center and it's other social channels: Instagram and Twitter. As for the teaching of the Italian language, the Institute continues to provide its students at home with courses covering all levels of the language taught. “Parla come mangi” (Speak as you Eat) is the first video series created by IIC Cairo and dedicated to students of the Italian language which was edited by the institute's professors of the Italian language courses, which search and even display various expressions of the vernacular Italian language, which is often similar to the Egyptian one, in addition to gestures, sayings and lifestyles. In addition, registration for the online conversation course (August 2020 summer course) is open from 19 July to 2 August.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 16 July, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
