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PodFest Cairo 2026

PodFest Cairo 2026 Saturday, 9 May 2026 At AUC's Tahrir Cultural Center Oriental Hall From 12-4 p.m. Featuring THE ECCO: Listening Session of Pan-Arab Audio Stories. A collaboration with the Goethe Institut Amman. NOTE: Most sessions will be in English, but there is one Arabic panel and the audio stories are in English and Arabic, with some translations. "AUC is a tobacco-free comm...

May

Media Coverage of War and Conflict

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join a panel on war coverage, from real-time reporting to bias, ethics and human impact.

May

Concert | The Art of Singing: A Journey Across Cultures

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join us for a unique cultural journey through the art of singing, featuring renowned soprano Dalia Farouk ✨ The program showcases a rich selection of classical and contemporary vocal works, spanning Italian, French, American and Czech opera; Austrian operetta; French, German, Arabic, Spanish, Brazilian and Korean art songs; as well as Broadway musical theater Dalia Farouk will be acc...

May

Concert | Sharmoofers

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Get ready for an unforgettable night with Sharmoofers! Join us for an electrifying concert that will light up the stage with the energy and fun you’ve come to expect from Sharmoofers.

May

ACT Theatre Group: Till Death Do Us Part

May 7 – May 9

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Time and Date ACT Theatre Group is back to AUC Tahrir Square with another edition of Famous For Fifteen Minutes Festival. We’re back with something new, something bold, something a little unhinged: Till Death Do Us Part We vow to bring you an unforgettable line-up of offbeat plays in English and Arabic, as we say “I do” to the beautifully chaotic, the bittersweet, and the downright absurd s...

May

Patterns of Failure in Achieving Social Impact

11:00 am

AUC Tahrir Square

The John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy, Civic Engagement and Responsible Business at Onsi Sawiris School of Business is hosting a public presentation delivered by the Center's Director, Ali Awni on the "Patterns of Failure in Achieving Social Impact". The presentation will be followed by a discussion with social impact experts. Registration link: https://forms.gle/ganrHyNUbFkfD4si9

May

Nazik al-Mala’ika Award

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Nazik al-Mala’ika Award for best thesis in English and Comparative Literature or Arabic Literature.

Apr

Expanding Life Chances: Community-Engaged Research and Structural Change

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

This talk examines how community-engaged research and interventions can expand opportunity for marginalized populations by addressing inequities in education, housing, and related social systems. Drawing on more than a decade of work, it presents case examples from college access, housing initiatives, and cross-systems interventions that have supported pathways for youth and communities to thri...

May

Kataklò Italian Athletic Dance Theatre

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Born from the artistic genius of Giulia Staccioli , Kataklò offers an energetic and expressive dance-theatre in which the body, through a style that expertly intertwines the disciplines of contemporary dance, acrobatics, aerial dance and physical theatre, is exalted as the promoter of an eclectic and transversal language capable of overcoming linguistic, social and generational barriers.

May

Theatrical Show | Bakathir Museum

May 1 – May 2

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Produced by the Hadramout Foundation for Culture in collaboration with The American University in Cairo and sponsored by Faisal Kamal Adham Group. A new theatrical production by director Ahmed Fouad, presenting a contemporary vision of the works of the great writer Ali Ahmed Bakathir, in an experience that blends heritage with a modern theatrical style. A theatrical journey inside a “living ...