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El Gouna Film Festival opens its doors in Egypt
The fourth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival started off on Friday at ElGouna, the Red Sea resort.Many Egyptian players and actors were present on the opening night. The festival that lasted a wee...
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Grand Egyptian Museum opening shifted to 2021
The Grand Egyptian Museum is now expected to open in 2021, not at the end of 2020.
Originally the project was due to open in 2013 but construction and fundingn problems delayed the much awaited open...
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Egypt renovates the oldest pyramid
After a 14 year period of restoration, Egypt finally reopens its oldest pyramid to the public.
Dating back over 4700 years when it was built as the tomb to Pharaoh Djoser, this unique ‘wonder of the...
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5-12 May. The second edition of the Cairotronica Festival runs until 12 May. The theme this year is A Future of Possibilities and exhibitions, screenings and workshops present the latest in design, en...
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Cairo festival of contemporary cinema from the Arab world.9-16 May. Cairo Cinema Days (Ayam Al Qahera Al Cinema’ya) is a showcase of Arab cinema hosting a selection of 40 short, documentary and featur...
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Christmas concert by Cairo Symphony Orchestra
23 Dec. Cairo Opera House presents a Christmas concert by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at 20.00 on 23 December.
Under the baton of Ahmed El Saedi, the orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Wellington’...
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Fargahli Abdel Hafiz exhibition at Zamalek art gallery
6 March-4 April. Roma Fargahli by Egyptian artist.
Fargahli Abdel Hafiz displays paintings inspired by the city of Rome. Fargahli has strong links with Italy having studied at the Institute of Art...
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Cairo's BuSSY project to perform Anesa Wala Madame
16 March. Storytelling project relates difficulties of single women in new work.
The BuSSy theatre project, which organises workshops and performances on gender-related topics, was started by the A...
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Cairo International Women's Film Festival
27 Feb-3 March. Women's film festival schedules 60 screenings.
The film festival screens international and local films on important social, cultural and political issues. The films, from 40 countri...
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Cairo video festival to show video art and experimental films.
10-25 Dec. A selection of films by more than 116 artists and 38 countries organised by the collective Medrar for Contemporary Art.
Sc...
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Cairo films festival to remember Faten Hamama.
11-20 Nov. The Lady of the Arab Screen is theme of the 37th edition of the festival, dedicated to the Egyptian actress who died in January this year....
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An exhibition of contemporary reproductions of vintage film posters from the 1950s-1970s.
These three decades were the golden age of Egyptian cinema posters, when Cairo was the Hollywood of the Mid...
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Colour in Lyrics. The artist reflects on 50 years “between the pressure of daily mundane details and the fantasy of imaginations.”
Magdi Naguib is known first of all for his poetry and...
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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture film week continues until 22 April with Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (documentary about the civil war, Syria 2014) on 19 April, Twenty-eight Nights and a Poe...
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The Dream of Shahrazad premiers in Cairo
This film by South African documentary director Francois Vestier relates recent events in Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon.
As in The Arabian Nights (A Thousand and One Nights) when Shahrazad spins storie...
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The Cairo Book Fair, once a major event in the Egyptian publishing calendar, is still trying to reclaim some of its past importance.
The fair, which was cancelled in 2011 because of the 25 January...
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Swiss-Egyptian project examines visual arts
The Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia examines the development of the visual arts in both Switzerland and Egypt at the beginning of the 21st century.
The project starts with a panel discussion led by...
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New paintings by Egypt's one-time minister of culture.
This is the first exhibition that Hosni has had in Egypt since he was ousted from office during the 2011 revolution that toppled President Mub...
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Cairo International Women's Film Festival
Some 60 films directed by women from 40 countries. This year the festival focuses on films from Germany with Andersen, Majub's Journey, Two at the Border, Clinical Romance and Broken Glass Park, all m...
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About 40 European films feature in this year's review of European films at the Zawya and Galaxy cinemas.
The films are divided into feature films screened at European festivals, emerging directors,...
