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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...

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 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...

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,...

You are invited to participate in a practice-sharing workshop with Imre Vass, a Hungarian dancer and choreographer, for the local adaptation of his site-specific contemporary dance performance Reading the Room. The workshop will welcome selected participants into an empty room,...

Tá Brón Orm is a metaphoric narrative rooted in the context of historical Ireland. Performed by Ahmed Ghareeb, Sara Gabr, and Shady Abdelrahman, the work expresses a global grief over the loss of language and culture brought about by extreme...

The Fallen follows the story of the last fairy of Ireland, who was captured by a Catholic king and hung to death for his own amusement. Tasked with the revival of the old pagan Irish ways, the new king tears...

Tá Brón Orm is a metaphoric narrative rooted in the context of historical Ireland. Performed by Ahmed Ghareeb, Sara Gabr, and Shady Abdelrahman, the work expresses a global grief over the loss of language and culture brought about by extreme...

The Fallen follows the story of the last fairy of Ireland, who was captured by a Catholic king and hung to death for his own amusement. Tasked with the revival of the old pagan Irish ways, the new king tears...

Reading the Room, a site-specific contemporary dance performance by Hungarian dancer and choreographer Imre Vass, invites the audience to tune into a deeper frequency of  attention in order to witness the unfolding of the room’s journey. In this performance, Vass...

Alejandro de los Santos is the head of International Relations at MASA, one of the most prominent performing arts markets in Africa and a leading platform for networking, promoting, and reflecting on the current landscape and future of performing arts...

You are invited to participate in a practice-sharing workshop with Imre Vass, a Hungarian dancer and choreographer, for the local adaptation of his site-specific contemporary dance performance Reading the Room. The workshop will welcome selected participants into an empty room,...

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...

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...