“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...
Showing
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...
Expired
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...
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...
Upcoming
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...
Showing
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...
Expired
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,...
Upcoming
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...
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...
Upcoming
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...
Upcoming
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...
Expired
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...
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...
This event will focus on the impact the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun has had on the lives of those living in its vicinity and how its presence influences their daily lives, memories, and sense of place and belonging.Dr. Mona...
Upcoming
D-CAF's Venues
165 Mohamed Farid Street, Downtown, Cairohttps://maps.app.goo.gl/A4hjLwuk8Fpfy7hq7
El Shourbagy Building Rooftop – Villa Violette 16 Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Shourbagy Building, 42 Abdelkhalik Tharwat Street, Downtown, Cairo
20 Al Dahdora Street, behind Ibn Tulun Mosuq, Al Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo Under the watchful gaze of the unique 9th-century spiral minaret of Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, a cultural space in historic Cairo is born; Beit Tulun (Arabic for: Tulun...
1 Madrasset El Huquq El Frinseya Street, El Mounira, Cairo
42 Abdelkhalik Tharwat Street, Downtown, Cairo
