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Watercolours by Fadwa Ramadan

15 April-11 May 2010. This exhibition displays the latest watercolours by the Egyptian artist Fadwa Ramadan. Before becoming an artist Ramadan studied art history in Italy, was an art critic for many...
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AUC student art exhibition

14 April-6 May 2010. The American University of Cairo once again pays homage to its art students and their production during the last academic year. The work will be judged by a jury made up of some o...
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Dibo Shades by Mohamed Shaker

11-25 April 2010. This is the 44th exhibition by Professor Mohamed Shaker, who on this occasion displays his latest colourful paintings. Shaker graduated in fine arts from Alexandria University and th...
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Egyptian art retrospective

9 April-9 May 2010. This major exhibition displays paintings by pioneers of the Egyptian art movement including Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Saleh El-Shety, Henry Sheha and Nazir Khalil. There is a special...
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African photographs by Jaime Mota

29 March-29 April 2010. This exhibition displays recent works by the internationally acclaimed Spanish photographer Jiame Mota, who in this series depicts Africans in their daily life at school, at wo...
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Lecture on the Kharga Oasis

6 April 2010. Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a leading scholar in Egyptian funerary archaeology, gives a lecture entitled Life Away from the Nile:...
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Journey Through the Orient

2-8 April 2010. This exhibition features a collection of prints by the Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864), belonging to the collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi...
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Edfu Temple Through Times

8 March-8 April 2010. This exhibition brings together drawings by Spanish artists of the ancient Egyptian Edfu Temple on the Nile. Built between 237 and 57 BC in the city of Edfu, it is the second lar...
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Huda Lutfi at the Townhouse

21 Feb-17 March. Cairo-based visual artist and cultural historian Huda Lutfi holds her first solo show in her native Egypt for several years. Making a Man out of Him presents a mixed body of work focu...
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Reem Hassan at Masharabia Gallery

21 Feb-18 March 2010. New work by Reem Hassan, assistant professor at the faculty of fine art at Alexandria University. Daily except Friday from 11.00 to 20.00.
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A Common Ambition for France and Egypt

1 March-30 April 2010. On the occasion of the French-Egyptian year of Science and Technology, the Centre Fran
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Head of League of Arab States Amre Moussa at AUC.

21 Feb 2010. This year the annual Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Amre Moussa, secretary-general of the League of Arab States and former minister of foreign affairs of the Arab Repu...
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Incarnation by Gazbia Sirry

7 Feb-4 March 2010. This exhibition features a series of 30 oil paintings recently created by the modern Egyptian painter Gazbia Sirry. Sirry
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Why Not

7 Feb-7 March 2010. This group exhibition dedicated to the human tongue features work by 44 emerging and established Egyptian artists. Participants include Enas El-Sediek, Adel El-Siwi, Ayman El-Semar...
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Paintings by Hala El-Sharouny.

7-19 Feb 2010. For the first time a solo exhibition is entirely dedicated to the Egyptian artist Hala El-Sharouny. This series entitled In Absentia features the artist
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Chinese culture week in Cairo

Chinese culture week opened in Cairo with a fashion show presenting three designers, Liu Huili, Li Liming and Chen Wen at the Cario Opera House. The culture week focuses on traditional culture, with m...
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Lecture by translator Humphrey Davies at AUC.

8 Feb 2010. The Centre for Translation Studies hosts a lecture on translation by the award-winning Arabic-English translator Humphrey Davies. Davies has worked in Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia...
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Italy donates book fair collection to Cairo

The Cairo international book fair. 28 Jan-8 Feb 2010. The book fair is one of the annual events in the Egyptian calendar. All well as being a forum for publishers and book sellers, it is also for all...
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Paintings by Kamal El-Sarrag.

2-25 Feb 2010. This exhibition presents a large selection of oils on canvas by the Egyptian artist Kamal El Sarrag. El Sarrag studied fine arts in Cairo, where he graduated in 1960, and at the Acade...
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Paintings by Farouk Wagdy.

30 Jan-28 Feb 2010. This exhibition, entitled Girls and Vases, displays paintings by the Egyptian artist Farouk Wagdy, who graduated in applied arts, ornament and glass in 1960. He has taken part in...

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