Amir Taz Palace
27 Al-Syoufiya St, off Al-Salebiya St, Al-Khalifa district, Tel 02 2514 2581
Sun 7, 7pm: “Tales of the Doctor” salon features Faten Salah Soliman, who will talk about the different roles played by Egyptian women in Egypt’s history.
Mon 8, 7pm: Salon of Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage.
Al-Ghouri Dome
111 Al-Azhar St, Al-Ghouriya, Tel 02 2506 0227
Sat 6, 9pm (Free entrance): The opening of Cairo Literary Forum.
Sun 7, 7pm: Part of Cairo Literary Forum, a session on the project of translating Aristotle works into Arabic.
Mon 8, 7pm: A seminar on the mutual effect between the Arab literature and the Malti literature introducing writers from Malta. A seminar on the new phenomena in the North African literature featuring speakers: Said Al-Khatiby and Khaled Al-Yamlahy (Algeria), and Sobhy Moussa (Egypt). A seminar on how Arab writers delt with issues of immigration and asylum, Memorial in Venice novel.
Tues 9, 7pm: “Narratives of difficult times in Arab Women’s Literature” and “Metafiction in Modern European Literature”.
Wed 10, 5pm: “Writing in the Language of the New Home” samples of Europe’s immigrated writers.
House of Arab Poetry
Beit Al-Sett Wassila, Behind Al-Azhar Mosque, Al-Azhar, Tel 02 2514 2990
Thurs 11, 7pm: The closing of Cairo Literary Forum presents an international poetry evening.
Naguib Mahfouz Museum
Tekkeyet Mohamed Bek Abul-Dahab, next to Al-Azhar Mosque, Al-Darb Al-Ahmar, Tel 0122 723 1573
Sat 6, 6pm: A lecture held as part of “Egypt’s Roads” programme features architect Salem Hussein.
Sun 7, 6pm: “Book Biography” encounter is organized by Naguib Mahfouz Museum and Cairo’s Biography initiative marking the 81th anniversary of the birth of late novelist Gamal El-Ghitani (1945–2015).
Tahrir Cultural Centre (TCC)
Al-Sheikh Rihan St, off Tahrir Square, Tel 02 2615 2694/01280009077
Hill House, Room 602 - AUC Tahrir Square
Wed 10, 7pm – 10pm: “The Rise of the Independent Music Bands”
an engaging music listening session accompanied by a rich narrative exploring the early beginnings of Egypt’s independent music band movement and its stages of development. The session will be presented by Ahmed Hafez, bassist of Massar Egbari band, who offers a unique perspective as both a contemporary witness and an active participant in the scene’s growth and evolution.
ALEXANDRIA
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Chatby, Alexandria 21526, Tel (03) 4839999
Auditorium Hall
Sat 6, 12pm: BA, through its Centre for Special Studies and Programmes (CSSP) of the Academic Research Sector, in cooperation with the Arab Regional Partner of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS-AREP), will host a public lecture titled “Causality and Decision-Making” to be delivered by Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Guido W. Imbens, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Imbens is a professor of economics at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. The lecture will examine the growing role of causal inference in modern statistical analysis and its importance in understanding the underlying causes behind observed data.
The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. Those wishing to attend are required to register in advance via the following link: www.bibalex.org/cssp/CDM.
* A version of this article appears in print in the 4 June, 2026 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly.
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