Today, Monday, February 21, 2022, a number of cultural and artistic events will be held in a number of creative bodies and sites, including:
The Minister of Culture, Dr. Enas Abdel-Dayem, and a number of ambassadors of Arab and foreign countries will witness the conclusion of the activities of the ninth session of the Aswan International Festival for Culture and Arts, which will be held in the evening in front of the Abu Simbel temple to celebrate the sun’s perpendicularity on the face of King Ramses II and then move to the market square in the city and continue until the early hours of The next morning.
From today until Thursday, February 24, the activities of the 12th edition of the Youssef Chahine Festival for Narrative and Short Films will be headed by Director of Photography Tariq Al-Telmisani. , Mohamed Hamdy, and critic Prince Abaza.
The Book and Publication Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture and its rapporteur, Dr. Khaled Al-Amri, will hold a symposium on "The Future of University Books"; at four o'clock in the evening; In the hall of the Supreme Council of Culture, the symposium is held under the auspices of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture; And Dr. Hisham Azmy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Culture, and the symposium will be moderated by Dr. Fathi Abdel-Hadi, and Dr. Hisham Farouk and Dr. Fadi Al-Amir will participate in it. Precautionary measures are applied to prevent the Corona virus.
The Cinema Culture Palace, affiliated to the General Authority for Culture Palaces, is organizing an artistic symposium entitled "The Role of Art and Cinema in Awareness of Society", in cooperation with the Lebanese Cultural Forum Taghreed Fayyad.
The "Women's Cinema" club, established by the National Cinema Center, resumes its activities, with the screening of the movie "For Rent", directed and written by Islam Bilal and starring Khaled Al-Sawy Mohamed Salam Sherry Adel, Essam El-Sakka, at 6:00 pm in Al-Hanager at the Egyptian Opera House.
The International Book Center will host a discussion and signing ceremony for the book “The Eagle and the Sparrow”, by writer Howayda Saleh, illustrated by Ahmed Geisa, and issued by the Egyptian General Book Authority headed by Dr. Haitham Al-Hajj Ali. Abdel Moneim, the artist Ahmed Geisa, and the meeting will be moderated by the poet Abdo Al-Zaraa. The meeting begins at five in the evening, at the headquarters of the International Book Center, behind the High Court.
Port Said Literature Club will host poet and journalist Khalaf Gaber in a symposium on his poetic works and his latest publication at the Cairo Book Fair 2022. The symposium will be moderated by writer Osama Abdel Aziz.
Recently, the Rose Al-Youssef Press Foundation released a new book entitled “Arab Treasures… Flags of the Arab Cultural Salon” by Maggie Hamed, a journalist at the Rose Al-Youssef Foundation, and presented by the Iraqi ambassador and thinker, Dr. Qais Al-Azzawi. In the presence of Dr. Moustafa Elfeki, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dr. Salah Fadl, and a group of symbols of literature and culture in Egypt and the Arab world.