A street theatre performance by the Nahda Art School for Social Theatre (which is affiliated to the Jesuit School in Cairo) that combined music and dance with acrobatics and circus-type attractions. Directed by Wolfgang Weiser.

Calligraphic works by Izabela Uchman exhibited in the maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey reflected on different aspects of coexistence as a human condition, and also on the coexistence of the meanings of words and their visual appearance in calligraphic compositions.

A photographic exhibition by the American artist David Degner, curated by Alexandra Stock. The back-lit photographs presenting various out-of-the-ordinary customs and beliefs in modern Egypt were presented in different rooms and spaces throughout the maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey.

The ‘Sultan’s Fair’ marked the opening of an art exhibition by the members of the faculty of Helwan University, Faculty of Applied Arts. Local craftspeople displayed their products in front of the maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey, and a training workshop in singing was organised for children.

Five dance, dance/theatrical, and puppet theatre performances were staged in a single day in and around the Maq’ad of Sultan Qaitbey by Egyptian, Dutch, British, Irish, and Hungarian artists as part of the of the 6th edition of the Cairo Downtown Contemporary Art Festival.

A lecture by the distinguished scholar Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif of the Schoool of Oriental and African Studies in London marked the launch of a book dedicated to her that was published by the UK-based Ginkgo Library.