Alef Bookstores 132 Al-Merghany St, Heliopolis, Tel 2419 2396- 010 022 4004 Wed 13, 7pm: Mahmoud Al-Ghannam signs his novel Ayam Maria (Maria's Days). Thur 14, 7pm: A discussion of Tharwat Al-Kharabawi's novelSecret of The Temple. 2 Taha Hussein St, Zamalek, Tel 010 0227 007 Thur 7, 7pm: Book signing and discussion of the group of short stories by Moataz Hani entitled Akher Ayam Al Dantel (The Last Days of Dantel). Fri 8, 7pm: Book signing and discussion of Osama Al-Shazli's novel entitled Kafr Al Aabet (Village of the Idiot). Sat 9, 7pm:Book signing and discussion of Eqbal Baraka's book We and Them. Sat 9, 1-4pm: Dicussing one of late novelist Khayri Shalabi's works.
The American University in Cairo *Oriental Hall Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Square, Tel 2615 2694/01280009077 Sun 9, 6pm: The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo (AUC) organized a discussion on “Issues Facing Creative Women,”. The discussion features Amina Zeidan, Egyptian novelist and a recipient of the Naguib Mahfouz Literature Prize; Duha Aasi, Egyptian researcher and translator, owner and director of Shababeek cultural center; Maysun Saqr, poet, novelist and artist from the UAE and Hala Al Badri, Egyptian journalist and novelist, and a recipient of the Egyptian state Award of Excellence.
French Cultural Institute Madrasset Al-Huquq Al Frinseya St, Mounira, Tel 2791 5800 Thur 7, 4-6pm: Part of “France in Egypt” series of lectures, a lecture entitled “The Place of the Woman in the World of the labour Market in Egypt”, will be delivered with the participation of the French ambassador of human rights Francois Zimeray. Mon 11, 9.30am-5pm: “The Shantyhouses Since the 25 January Revolution 2011,” to be delivered by a number of urban development experts.
Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art 8 Champollion St, Cairo, Tel25784494/ 0100 1704554 Sun 10, 7pm: A book launch Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism, author: Paolo Gerbaudo, King's College London with introduction by Gennaro Gervasio, British University in Egypt and the participation of Salma Hegab, Egyptian blogger. Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around ‘occupied' places such as Cairo's Tahrir Square or New York's Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, the book points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.
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 *River Hall Thur 14, 8pm: World-renowned novelist Alaa Al-Aswani speaks about post-revolution Egypt.
