Egypt's General Department of Culture, in cooperation with the General Department of Talents at the Institute of Cultural Palaces, will host a lecture titled, “Democracy and Freedom of elections.” The lecture will be given by Mansour Abdel Sameea, a professor at the Faculty of Literature at Menoufia University. The lecture will be on Sunday, December 11 at Shbein el-Koum Cultural Palace at 11am. There will be seven other lectures about parliamentary elections given at the same time at the headquarters of cultural palaces in Egypt's governorates. At the cultural palace in Beni Suef, south of Cairo, there will be a lecture titled, “The difference between voting for lists and individuals.” In Menoufia, in the Nile Delta, there will be a lecture titled, “The coming assembly and development.” In Sharqia, also in the Nile Delta, there will be a lecture titled “Active political trends in the coming phase,” and Ismailia will host a lecture titled, “Social forces and its influences on voters.” There will be two lectures in Beheira in the Nile Delta. The first is titled, “The individual's role in the successful electoral process” and the second “A new People's Assembly achieves the Egyptian person's ambitions.” In Aswan, in Upper Egypt, there will be a lecture under the title of “Democracy and Development.”