This year's Ramadan surprise in the series 'Spirits in the City' is a night on late Sheikh Sayed Mekkawi - Lectures - Al-Ahram Weekly
New Cairo Campus
History Department Conference Room, 2144
Thurs 27 1-2pm: 'History Hash Outs— Cultural Diplomacy on the Eve of War: The 1939 New York World's Fair", a talk by James J. Fortuna, Associate Lecturer in U.S. History at the University of St Andrews, on Cultural Diplomacy on the Eve of War: The 1939 New York World's Fair. Promoted as the 'last best chance for peace,' the 1939 World's Fair in New York offered foreign governments a platform to showcase their geopolitical perspectives through national pavilions and exhibits. While often dismissed as sites of entertainment or commerce, this talk reveals how the Fair functioned as an international forum where nations used cultural displays to advance foreign policy goals.
Cairo Opera House
Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Tel 02 2737 0602/2736 0361, box office 02 2739 0132/0144
Small Hall
Mon 3 March, 9pm: This year's Ramadan surprise in the series "Spirits in the City" is a night whose title is the wit and kindness that we knew the late Sheikh Sayed Mekkawi. The night is titled "The Earth Speaks Arabic", his immortal cry in his era and the eras after him.. And his daughter Amira Sayed Makkawi, and many fans will enlighten the event. A night in the lap of creativity of our master Sheikh Sayed, Egypt's most popular mesaharaty (mobile drummer) in Ramadan.
Maqas Maq'd of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitby (MASQ)
Darb Al-Saqia St, behind Qaitbay Mosque, City of the Dead, Tel 01226569944
Thurs 27, 6pm: 'Some Things Never Change' artist Mohamed Abla in conversation with Jaroslaw Dobrowolski.
* A version of this article appears in print in the 27 February, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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