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Still scrambling for Valentine’s Day plans? Make dinner reservations at Villa Belle Epoque in Maadi or the Nile Kempinski’s Jazz Bar, each of which will have special dinner setups, complete with romantic music to round out the evening. Eish & Malh is also hosting a candlelit dinner with live music.
Or you can skip dinner and get moving: Take a dance class with AfroLatin at Sheraton Cairo in Dokki, with everything from salsa and bachata to kizomba.
“An Archive of Love”: Digitent’s Cairo Photo Week exhibition Middle East Archive continues to run until this Saturday, 18 February at The Hanger in Downtown Cairo. The curated collection of photographs is “a sincere visual exploration and celebration of love in the Middle East and North Africa.” Get tickets to Cairo Photo Week here.
Art Cairo is still going on at the Grand Egyptian Museum until tomorrow Tuesday, 14 February. The art fair will feature more than 30 international galleries from around the Middle East.
Dust off your dancing shoes for an Afro Jazz Beginners Course with Mako Ruan at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center from 7-8 pm this Thursday.
Get in shape to participate in TriFactory’s Saqqara Pyramid Race this Friday, 17 February. The race is part of their Race Through History series, and you can choose between two distances: 5 km and 10 km (both are one-lap race courses timed using the MyLaps timing system).
Fun Nation is taking over standup comedy night at Room Art Space New Cairo this Saturday, 18 February at 9pm, with this lineup of local comedians, Waleed Al Tourky, Shehab Al Ashry, Ahmed Hossam, Waleed Mostafa and Waleed Abo Almagd.
Don’t miss Omar Khairat's concerts at 8pm next Monday and Tuesday, 20 and 21 February in the Main Hall of the Cairo Opera House.
We’re two weeks away from Kevin Hart’s standup comedy show in Cairo next Tuesday, 21 February. Some ticket categories are still available here.
Catch Cirque du Soleil’s OVO next month: The event features 100 performers taking the stage with their acrobatic acts. OVO will host 16 shows between 8-18 March at Cairo international Stadium Hall, courtesy of real estate developer Madinet Nasr for Housing and Development (pdf).
Head to the She Crafts bazaar on 24 and 25 February at the Grand Nile Tower Hotel in Garden City anytime between 12-8 pm. The bazaar aims to help women market their products and become more financially independent.
Rock fans rejoice: 1984, Galab and Dabbet Namla are taking the stage at El Sawy Culturewheel’s Castle of Rock Festival on Tuesday 28 February at 7 pm.