The American University in Cairo Tues 22, 2-3pm Cairo Time (12-1pm GMT): “How Chinese Multinationals Are Conquering The World” webinar will discuss the swift expansion of Chinese firms, deglobalization and lessons to learn from the changing landscape of a competitive world. This edition of the Willard W. Brown Webinar Series will be hosted byLourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Gail and Roberto Cañizares, Director of the Emerging Markets Institute in the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, as well as Anne Miroux, Faculty Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.
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.
Diwan Bookstore Meet novelist Reem Bassiounyand get a signed copy of her new novel, Sabeel Alghareeq … Altareeq wa Albahr(The Path of the Drowned …The Road and the Sea). Bassiounywill tour Diwan branches to sign her new novel daily from 5 to 7pmin Diwan of HeliopolisonFriday 18 September, 105, Abu Bakr El-Seddiq St, Heliopolis, Tel 02 2690 8184/85/ 0122 600016 Diwan Down Town Mall Katameya, on Saturday 19 September,Downtown Mall Katameya Building S2.24 ground floor, 012 79918669 Diwan of Zamalek,onSunday 20September, 159, 26thof July St, Zamalek, Tel 01222 40 7084 Diwan Capital Promenade in Sheikh Zayed, on Tuesday 22 September,Capital Business Park, El-Sheikh Zayed, 0122 1503483 Sun 20, 9pm: A discussion with novelist and screenwriterAhmed Mourad about writing, and his latest novel Locanda Bir Al-Wataweet (Hotel of the Bats Well), 9pm in a live broadcast on Diwan's Facebook page.
Goethe Institute In the interest of the safety of students, our partners, workers and employees of the Goethe-Institute Cairo, and based on the outstanding success of the language courses and the various activities offered online, courses and cultural events will continue to be offered online until the end of the current year, and attendance during the coming months will be limited to holding postponed examinations and organising some training workshops for a limited number of trainees within the framework of our cultural and training projects, taking into account the highest levels of safety measures. This decision comes in implementation of the principle announced by the Goethe Institute at the beginning of the crisis, which is that preserving public health comes first. In the second half of this September, the institute will start working on holding postponed exams, which students registered for before the Corona pandemic, and cannot be submitted online to ensure the level of quality, guided by the successful experience in organising exams for students of the preparatory year programme eligible for university study in Germany during the month of June, Which took into account all the personal protection and safety measures. 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.
Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy (The Culture Resource) invites you to attend the presentation and discussion sessions on the collaborative projects carried out by the participant organisations in the pilot edition of the Wasl (link) programme which aspires to empower the cultural sector in the Arab region and to build bonds between cultural organisations across this region. Towards these ends, it promotes networking between independent cultural organisations, strengthens the culture of collaboration and mutual learning by supporting collaborative projects between them, and organises training workshops that engage the principles and methods of “peer learning”. Sessions will be streamed live online on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 15 to 24 September 2020 at 18:00 Beirut time, on Culture Resource's YouTube channel. During the sessions, to be conducted in Arabic, you are welcomed to put questions to the participants in the comments section and they will discuss them after their presentations.
El-Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, under the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 02 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 WisdomHall (No entry without a mask and the hall will be open at only 25 percent audience capacity) Fri 18, 5pm: “How to Protect Your Child”, is a series of workshops launched byEl-Sawy Culturewheelto empower parents and children against sexual harassment. For a safe back to school, parents will learn: What is the sexual abuse?, Who is the abuser?, signs shown on an abused child, why can't the child say no?, How to react if my child shared with me that someone crossed his/her boundaries?.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 17 September, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
