Families, environmentalists and food enthusiasts gather in Cairo to revive an ancient celebration of date harvesting In its second edition the Date Palm Festival brings together Egyptian environmentalists, foodies and families to celebrate the date harvest season on 26 September. The Date Palm Festival is organised by Slow Food Cairo, Nawaya, Ice-Ribh, Zooba and Mahali […]
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VIDEO: Cairo festival celebrates dates and palm trees
February 16th, 2015 
Rowan El Shimi 
Posted in Ahram Online, Video 
Tags: Agriculture, Date Palm Festival, Ma7ali, Nawaya, Slow Food Cairo, Zooba 
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VIDEO: Egypt’s students, parents express hopes for new school year
February 16th, 2015 Rowan El Shimi On the first day back to school, Egypt’s students and their parents talk to Ahram Online about their aspirations for the school year and the education system In Dokki district of Giza, part of greater Cairo, students and parents express their desires for a positive education system and hopes for improvement in the new school […]
Les Petits Chats to reunite in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
February 14th, 2015 Rowan El Shimi Les Petits Chats, a cover band which started in 1967, gets together for the closing event of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Summer Festival on Tuesday 2 September. In Alexandria, the singers will be joined by Nayer Nagui who worked on some arrangements of the songs and who will also play piano. Rami Soussou will play keyboards, […]
VIDEO: Theatre takes the anti-FGM message around Egypt
August 28th, 2014 Rowan El Shimi As part of a female genital mutilation awareness-raising campaign around Egypt, Hara TV 3 is putting on interactive theatre events around the country. — Previously published on Ahram Online. Ahram Online caught up with them in Qalioubiya in the Nile Delta, where they were putting on a sketch followed by an audience discussion session. Read […]
Posted in Ahram Online, Video Tags: Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, Noon Creative Enterprise, Theatre No Comments »
Independent music reaches Mansoura through El Fusion
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi The Cairo Jazz Agency hosted one of its El Fusion events in Egypt’s Delta city of Mansoura — Published in Ahram Online. —– The Cairo Jazz Agency has recently brought independent musicians to Mansoura city in the north of Egypt’s Delta for an outdoor concert. Tunisian Ghalia Benali and Alexandrian Massar Egbari, along with Osama […]
Posted in Ahram Online, Video Tags: Cairo Jazz Club, Ghalia Benali, Independent Music, Mansoura, Masar Egbari No Comments »
Egyptian presidential elections 2014 coverage
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi Three videos produced for Ahram Online during the 2014 presidential elections.
Exhibition on jazz pioneer Sun Ra opens in Cairo
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi An exhibition entitled ‘1971, Sun Ra in Egypt’ at Medrar in Cairo focuses on intergalactic jazz legend’s music – and love of ancient Egypt — Video published in Ahram Online. ——- Cairo-based art space Medrar for Contemporary Art is currently hosting Belgian artist Tom Bogaert’s exhibition 1971, Sun Ra in Egypt, which opened on 15 […]
Posted in Ahram Online, Video Tags: Exhibition, Jazz, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Sun Ra, Visual Art No Comments »
In Pictures: Lebanese artist creates his Fictional Museum in Cairo
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi Berlin-based Lebanese artist Said Baalbaki deconstructs history in Munich, Berlin and Cairo simultaneously through his Fictional Museum running at Hotel Viennoise until 25 May — Published in Ahram Online, Video published in Medrar TV and Vernissage TV as part of a joint workshop on video production on arts in Cairo. ———- Within the visual arts […]
The Wonder Box: folkloric art contemporised in Cairo’s public spaces
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi Storytelling, music and visuals dubbed ‘The Wonder Box’ in performances that revive old folklore traditions in a contemporary setting — Published in Ahram Online. Mahatat for Contemporary Arts brings together nine multidisciplinary artists to re-create the folkloric storytelling device “the Wonder Box” in a contemporary way. The Wonder Box is touring Cairo and Giza between […]
Posted in Ahram Online, Video Tags: Art in Public, Art in Public Space, Mahatat, Mahatat for Contemporary Art, The Wonder Box No Comments »
Arab, African multidisciplinary artists evoke questioning through Spoken World
July 3rd, 2014 Rowan El Shimi In a special performance for the Red Zone Festival and Spring Festival, poets, musicians and a visual artist come together for a hybrid performance in Cairo and Beirut — Published in Ahram Online. ——— In a unique performance developed especially for the Norwegian Red Zone Festival, parts of which are hosted by the Spring Festival, Arab […]
Posted in Ahram Online, Ahram Online, Published Articles, Video Tags: Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafi, Music, Red Zone Festival No Comments »
