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A live electro-music evening born from an art residency that brought together Mahom, an electronic and dub music producer, and Ma-Beyn, an Egyptian-Palestinian artist. French Touch is part of a French-Egyptian cultural collaboration designed to foster encounters, creativity, and dialogue...

Space is never neutral; it is shaped by who has access to it, who feels entitled to occupy it, whose presence is visible, and whose voices are heard. This applies to streets, cultural institutions, homes, public spaces, as well as...

“Borders” is a word that can stop you in your tracks. It can hold you back, pinpoint your location, or separate you from where you hope to go next. But what do borders really mean? Are they simply lines drawn...

The gaze is always directed towards the sky. Jacopo Valentini is a visual artist and researcher who explores landscape in a way that transcends the mere representation of a place and perceives it as a complex system of relationships between...

In this artist talk, Nermine El Ansari will share her artistic practice in depth, and the methods she used while working on the sound installation Natural Scenes. Nermine started working on it in 2012, which was strongly tied to her...

Participating artists will be invited to collectively recall certain childhood memories—from before the age of ten—and create an image that closely resembles the one etched in their memory. Each participant will then share their image with the rest of the...

The Tulun Mosque photography exhibition, by Egyptian-French photographer Ayman Khoury, features a unique visual and photographic depiction of the oldest mosque in Egypt still standing. Built in the 9th century CE on Mount Yashkur by architect Said ibn Katib al-Farghani,...

Aflam – Cinémas des Mondes Arabes Comes to Egypt For the first time since its creation, the Aflam – Cinémas des mondes arabes festival, a major cultural event held annually in Marseille, France, is taking its program beyond its usual...

In Everynothing, three dancers search for moments of stillness and clarity in a precarious world that never stops moving. They explore what it means to stay alert, yet at ease, to rest while in motion, and to find space where...

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet in War Time? is a poem by Hend Jouda, published on her Facebook in October 2023, at the height of the massacres in Gaza. Iconic and immediately viral, it was translated into...

What can we pass on when we have lost everything? Drawing on his memories, Palestinian artist Mohammed Al Qudwa transforms exile into words and pain into movement. Having lived through successive wars in Gaza from childhood into adulthood, he carries...

 Knife Hearts is an international co-production between Egypt and Germany, which brings together four dancers—three Egyptian and one Turkish-German—who challenge Western definitions of dance and performance, as well as the expectations imposed on them. Drawing on raqs sharqi, mahraganat, and...

A few years ago, Beirut-based actress, author, and director Chrystèle Khodr uncovered an archive that recounted the story of Eva Ståhl, a Swedish nurse and survivor of the Tel al-Zaatar massacre in 1976. Together with Nadim Deaibes, she created Record,...

A live electro-music evening born from an art residency that brought together Mahom, an electronic and dub music producer, and Ma-Beyn, an Egyptian-Palestinian artist. French Touch is part of a French-Egyptian cultural collaboration designed to foster encounters, creativity, and dialogue...

In this artist talk, Nermine El Ansari will share her artistic practice in depth, and the methods she used while working on the sound installation Natural Scenes. Nermine started working on it in 2012, which was strongly tied to her...

As part of its efforts to keep pace with the dynamism and growth of the Arab cultural landscape, specifically the performing arts, AFAC has commissioned an in-depth research paper led by writer, artist, and academic Driss Ksikes on the performing...

This improvisation workshop will rely on words, images, and the imagination to open up different ways of moving. It will explore types of movement that make sense to us and how we can move with that kind of clarity in...

The Documentary Comics Workshop, led by artist Mai Koraiem in collaboration with Mazg, offers a hands-on exploration of D-CAF through drawing and visual documentation. Over the course of one day, participants will move through festival spaces capturing moments, events, and...

How is contemporary Palestine constructed through personal narratives, outside perspectives, and collective memory? Bringing together journalism, literature, photography, and cinema, this panel features a conversation between Lena Mauger, Editor-in-Chief of Kometa magazine, and Jadd Hilal, a Franco-Palestinian-Lebanese author. Together, they...

Participating artists will be invited to collectively recall certain childhood memories—from before the age of ten—and create an image that closely resembles the one etched in their memory. Each participant will then share their image with the rest of the...