Alef Bookstores 132 El-Merghany Street, Masr Al-Gedida. Tel 2419 2396/0100 224004 Thur 22, 7pm: A discussion of Ahmed Helmi's book 28 Letters. 2 Taha Hussein St, infront of Al Yamama Centre, Zamalek, Tel 27365180, 0100 227007 Wed 28, 7pm: Signing and discussing Masriano-Diaries of an Italian Photographer, a book written by Italian author Carmini Cartolano. 84 Street No 9, Al-Maadi. Tel 2750 8667/0100 229996 Sat 24, 7pm: Signing Omar Taher's most recent book entitled Zaman Al Gham Al Gamil: Yaoummayat Mwaten Masri Qabl Al Thawra (The Age of Grief: Diaries of An Egyptian Citizen before the Revolution).
The American University in Cairo Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Sq. Tel 2797 6373/ 2615 1221 *Ewart Memorial Hall Sat 24, 6-8pm: “Where to?”, a lecture by Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, leading Egyptian journalist, author and commentator on Arab affairs and Al-Ahram editor-in-chief from 1957 to 1974. *Oriental Hall Sat 24, 4-6pm: “Is America Islamophobic? Muslim American Life After the 2012 Elections.” Delivering the lectures will be Mustafa Bayoumi, professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won the American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction.
*Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall AUC New Cairo Campus Mon 26, 3.30-5pm: “Ranters, Racists and Revolutionaries: Muslims, Politics and the Technologies of Hate and Healing,” to be delivered by Mustafa Bayoumi.
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi St, Zamalek, Tel 2738 2520/22 Thur 22, 6pm: “Binding Relationships: Ottoman, Mamluk and Renaissance Bindings”, a lecture by Alison Ohta, director of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Thur 29, 6pm: Lacunae and Missing Elements in Historic Buildings: Questions regarding their Conservation and Restoration Treatments”, a lecture to be co-delivered by Dina Bakhoum and Mohamed Lashien. Bakhoum is the Conservation Programme Manager at the Aga Khan Cultural Services, Egypt and Lashien is an architect working as the site manager of the Aqsunqur Mosque.
El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448, www.culturewheel.com *Word Hall Thur 22, 6pm: “The Judaisation of Jerusalem”, a lecture by Bassam Al-Shamaa. Thur 29, 8pm: “Islam and the West”, a lecture delivered in English by Islamic preacher Idris Tawfik.
