Arab Cinema Centre (ACC) Thurs 3, 6pm: Tunisia's multiple award-winning composer and orchestratorAmine Bouhafa to be introduced by Egyptian film critic Andrew Mohsen in a talk streamed live on the official ACC Instagram page. Bouhafa became the youngest composer to receive a César Award for Best Original Music for the film Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako in 2015. Since then, he multiplied rewards and nominations for a slew of remarkable musical scores in Arab films and TV series, including: Beauty and the Dogs, Casablanca, A Son, Grand Hotel, Wanous, La Totfe'e Al Shams (do not extinguish the sun), Tariqi (my road) and Haret Al Yahoud (alleyway of Jews).
Cervantes Institute TheInstitutein Cairo has modified its course programme to suit the current circumstances by offering its courses online in a way that has met with great success among students. It offers various courses; a course in Spanish, a course in improving grammar, speaking, writing, so that learning Spanish is among the activities that students carry out in their homes to endure this period.For full information flock to https://elcairo.cervantes.es/eg/courses_spanish/july_december_general.htm TheInstitutecontinues to encourage its students to read during this period of lockdown by providing links to many of the works included in the electronic library of Cervantes Institute's branches.
The French Cultural Institute The Instituteadvisesyou tostay at home to prevent coronavirus and to protect your loved ones.It offers you a variety of entertainment and educational proposals to do in your home alone or with your family. Through the #of the French Institute, in Egypt, withyou, at home,the institutewill share withnew information through which you can discover several fields, including: museums, audio-visual media, heritage, dance, science, education and language.Be on time with the instituteonits Facebook pageat 11am and 3pm.You canmake virtual visits to museums, listen to audiobooks, watch parties, continue studying French online and enjoy leisure activities. The institute offers new remote distance French language courses for adults(Semi-intensive course on Friday and Saturday (two lectures / 3 hours per week): from 7 Augustto 26 September) and children (All summer from 2pm to 4pm) at Mounira and Sheikh Zayed branches. To register for placement tests, call 0122 7484951 from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm or email the institute on [email protected]. General French courses online for adults at Heliopolis and New Cairo branches (Extended course from 9 August to 18 October and Intensive course from 9 August to 9 September). In addition, new remote distance French language courses for adultsat Alexandria branch, for reservation go to [email protected] The institute announces a new course for children online, from 7 to 17 years old at the Heliopolis and New Cairo branches (Intensive course from 9 August to 9 September, Send the registration request to the following e-mail:[email protected] Or you can send your phone number and e-mail in a message on the institute's Facebook page. General French courses online for adults, extended course from 23 August to 3 November.
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.
ALEXANDRIA Abdel-Moneim Gaber Theatre El-Gaish road, Al Ibrahimeyah Bahri and Sidi Gaber, Tel 03 5908380 Fri 4, 4pm:“The 4G”, a lyrical poetry eventorganized by Ayman Mansour.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 3 September, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
