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Don't miss 'My Son is Not a Project, My Son is a Human Being' symposium at El Sawy Culturewheel - Lectures - Al-Ahram Weekly
Diwan Bookstore
105, Abu Bakr El-Seddiq St, Heliopolis, Misr Algedida, Tel 02 2690 8184/85/ 0122 6000168
Thurs 26, 7pm: Discussion of Salah Essa's book Afyoun wa Banadeq (Opium and Guns).
El Sawy Culturewheel
End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448
Word Hall
Thurs 26, 5pm (Public invitation): 'My Son is not a Teenager' a lecture by Sheikh Ahmed El-Abady, preacher and researcher at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Religious Media Department, Cairo Region.
Thurs 26, 5.30pm: 'My Son is Not a Project, My Son is a Human Being: The Proper Upbringing of Children' symposium features mental health and educational guidance consultant Omnia Abdel-Mo'aty, who will tackle several themes such as the difference between normal education and negative education, the
basic psychological needs of the child, and the proper tools for bringing children.
Mon 30, 5.30pm: 'Mamluks ruled Egypt before and after the Mamluks' a lecture by archaeological lecturer and Islamic antiquities researcher Hossam Zedan.
ALEXANDRIA
French Cultural Institute
30 Al-Nabi Danial St, Mahatet Misr, Alexandria, Tel 03 3913435/3918952
Thurs 26, 6pm: 'Forgotten Heritage: The Santons of the Mareotide' conference presented by Professor of History Ismael Awad, in Arabic and French, will be moderated by Giuseppe Cecere, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Bologna. This is a scientific research project documenting all the shrines and tombs in the Lake Mariout area. It is led by the French Centre for Alexandrian Studies, in collaboration with the artist Samar Bayoumi as a professional photographer. Funded by the Barakat Trust Charitable Foundation in England, the project is based on a cartographic study conducted by Dr. Ismail Awad on numerous topographic map collections, ranging from maps of the French expedition engineers in 1801 to modern satellite images. The project aims to document all the shrines existing since the beginning of the nineteenth century and trace their development through maps until 2024.
(7pm) Following the conference will be the opening of the exhibition 'In the Presence of the Sacred' organized by photographer Samar Bayoumi and Ismael Awad.
* A version of this article appears in print in the 26 June, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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