Jacinta Candinas’s ‘Cairo – Lucerna – Coira’, a book published in 2011, presents the results of a series of postcard exchanges between Jacinta Candinas (Cairo) and Manuel Vázquez (Lucerna) and includes short stories and poems by Andri Perl (Coira).

Egypt’s official book launch will take place on Saturday, 8 October in the presence of Candinas. The event will also showcase a concert by Cairo-born Georges Kazazian.

Kazazian, of Armenian descent, has performed at some of the most prestigious festivals around the world and has composed soundtracks for several films including Aly Badrakhan's Al Goua (The Hunger) and Mohamed Khan's Zawget Ragol Mohem (The Wife of an Important Man). His music is hard to box into one genre, though it has been categorised as Egyptian Jazz. Whatever one chooses to call it, Kazazian’s music is definitely a fusion, drawing on, among other influences, Indian and Armenian sounds.

His albums include Sabil (1991), Sagate (1997), Sajaya (1997), Nil Sangit (1999), Suite "al Ganûb" (1999), Monaga (2001), Azraq (2002), Dayra Jazz (2002), Neel Dhun (2008) and Zafir (2008).

The event will take place on Saturday 8 October at 8pm at the Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art 8, Champollion St. Downtown, Cairo.