Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin El-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo. Tel 2364 3103 A permanent exhibition of the centre's ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayamiya products.
Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) 22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown, Cairo, Tel 2396 4272 "References", artists activating the archive: Amado Alfadni, Mariam Elias and Marwa Al Shazli, Aliaa Salah, Nada Shalabi, curated by Hala Al Koussi and Uriel Orlow and supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council (Closing12 January).
Darb 1718 Kasr El Sham3 Street, Al Fakhareen, Old Cairo, near Mar Girgis Metro Station, Tel 2361 0511 "The Egypt Photo Marathon 2013", exhibition will showcase the winning series of photographs and special mentions, selected by photojournalist Mos'ab el Shamy and photographer Yasser Alwan, from a pool of 1021 photo submissions comprising all participating governorates (Closing10 January).
Ebdaa 23 B Ismail Mohamed St, Zamalek, Tel 2736 6239/0100 2155702 "Readings in Visual Art", paintings by Chafik Charobim (1894-1975) (9-30 January).
Egyptian Centre for International Cultural Cooperation 11 Shagaret Al-Durr St, Zamalek, Tel 2736 5419 "The Holy Family in Egypt", a group exhibition featuring the paintings of 10 leading Egyptian artists such as Farid Fadel (9-16 January).
Extra 3 Al-Nessim St, corner of Montazah St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 6293 Artworks by Mina Sarofim (Closing 11 January).
Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 *Ahmed Sabri Hall Paintings by Farghali Abdel-Hafez and a number of child artists including among others Ahmed Wael, Sherif Shadi and Amr Ahmed (9-22 January). *Al-Hussein Fawzi Hall Installation byIman Nabil (9-22 January). *Kamal Khalifa Hall Paintings by Rimon Suleiman (9-22 January). *Ragheb Ayad Hall Sculpture by Nagui Farid(9-22 January).
Al-Ghouri Caravansary Imam Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Moaiz St with Al-Azhar, Tel 2514 7475 The permanent exhibition of the handicrafts centre products including pottery, brass artworks and jewellery.
Al Kahila 15 Al Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz St, Mohandiseen, Tel 3304 0791/ 0122 8647511 A miscellaneous exhibition by a group of artists (9-20 January).
AL MASAR Behler's Mansion, 157b, 26 July St, ground floor, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8537/010 067 0705 *“The Journey” exhibition of paintings by eminent artist Mohamed Sabri (Closing 9 January). *"Nostalgic Dreams", Georges Bahgory's annual exhibition showcases the artist's latest collection that is inspired by the current times Egypt is living through and past memories. The artist as always is hopeful and his paintings express a lot of nostalgia to the past. He celebrates the simple beauty of this country as he glorifies some personalities such as the humble bread seller on the street and dedicates this exhibition to real Egyptian heroes (19 January-23 February). Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2578 4494/0100 1704554 "Sheer Strength", this exhibition stresses the possibility of putting together 4 female artistic personalities as different as those of Hala Abu Shadi, Dina Al Gharib, Souad Abdel Rasoul and Fadwa Ramadan. From the more rigourous abstraction to a surprising overlapping of images, their trajectories of research result into works of strong visual impact, empowered by the sophisticated use of various techniques: painting, drawing, collage, digital photography (9 January-28 February).
Misr 4A Ibn Zankai St, from Hassan Sabri, Zamalek, Tel 2735 0604 "Sound Interpretations", paintings by Moataz Al-Emam (Closing 11 January).
Picasso 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek. Tel 2736 7544 "The Clown: Laughing and Crying", paintings by Omar Al-Nagdi (Closing 22 January).
The Photographic Gallery The American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, Plaza Level, Tel 2615 3318 “European Pressphoto Agency: Current Images”, a group exhibition presents a series of photographs from the vast archival collection of The European Pressphoto Agency, that contains over three million images. These powerful photographs taken by epa's leading photographers covers hard news, sports, entertainment, current events, and international issues from January 2012 until the present. The European Pressphoto Agency is one of the world's leading international news photo agencies providing clients with timely, reliable and high-quality news photography from around the globe. Epa's news photo service delivers a comprehensive feed of pictures that have the power to inform, educate and entertain. This year marks the 10thanniversary of epa's global coverage. The Photographic Gallery presents a second part of all new pictures of the exhibition (Closing 23 January).
SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 "Inji's World", an exhibition of masterpieces by late artist Inji Efflatoun(9 January- 14 February).
El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 *Earth & Word Halls The Culturewheel 11th photography competition (11-20 January).
Townhouse 10 Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2576 8086 *Factory Space "Cut and Paste", Huda Lutfi presents a psycho-geographic archive of emotions, gestures, figures of speech and images that circulated in public space during Egypt's transitional period. All new work produced over the past two years, these collages, found objects and sculptures combine to create one impressionistic story of the recent past (Closing 8 January). *First Floor gallery "Social Security", featuresYazaan Al-Zo'bi andIslam Shabana, Moshtarak, Obada, WAGBA curated by:Ania Szremski andShehab Awad; these artists and culture workers will present public programs to build grassroots support, raise money, and exchange services and goods through networks that bypass traditional channels of fundraising.They are joined in the space by WAGBA (formerly known as Wednesday Wagbas), Townhouse's community-funded micro-granting programme that was launched in 2011. Weekly meals accompanied by artist talks and discussions will be served in the First Floor for a donation which will go into a general fund to support the artists (Closing 8 January). *Rawabet Annex "Freedom is Coming", shown in Egypt for the first time on the occasion of Townhouse's 15 year celebrations, El Horeya Gayya Labod (Freedom is Coming, 2013) is a larger-than-life sized leather and iron sculpture modeled on a French 17th-century chastity belt created by Lara Baladi. Large enough to engulf a human being, the sculpture functions almost like a cage—a prison made of iron, a substance that is obdurate and resistant to change, ultimately signifying the looming danger of the loss of freedom at large (Closing 8 January).
Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 "A Safe Way Out", paintings by Sameh Ismail (9-28 January).
