Under the patronage of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, and Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Culture, the Foreign Cultural Relations Sector headed by Sabri Saeed is organizing a round table entitled (Naguib Mahfouz and Bunin), the two Nobel Prize winners in literature; The event will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, at the Supreme Council of Culture.
This is within the framework of the cultural activities organized by the sectors of the Ministry of Culture to celebrate the selection of 2020/2021 as the year of the Egyptian-Russian human exchange.
The evening begins with the opening of an art exhibition on the subject in the Majlis' lobby. Then the round table will start as follows:
7:30 - 7:45 pm Opening of the exhibition
The exhibition opens:
Dr. Hisham Azmy - Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture
- HE. Ambassador Georgy Borisenko - Russian Ambassador
7:45-9:30 A round table in which:
Dr. Olga Yarilova -
Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, and Dr. Makarim Al-Ghamry, Professor of Comparative Russian Literature and former Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun,
- Mr. Maxim Rubin - Counselor of the Russian Embassy in
Egypt, and Dr. Hussein Hammouda - Professor of Arabic Literature at Cairo University and Rapporteur of the Story Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture
- Dr. Vadim Polonskiy - Director of the Maxim Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
And Dr. Mai Amin - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Russian Language, Faculty of Al-Alsun
- Dr. Vadim Duda - Director of the Russian State Library
- Dr Nina Uspenskaya - Ph.D. at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Megimo University) - specialist in Egyptian literature
- Dr. Marina Sivokho - Ph.D. at the Military College of Logistics - specialized in Egyptian literature.
The meeting will be moderated by Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Culture.
Precautionary measures are applied to prevent corona virus; It is not allowed to enter without a mask at all, and the evening is broadcast “online” via the Conferences Secretariat’s page on Facebook.