Festival · Cairo, Egypt
Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival
Active / recurring
One of Cairo's best-known international Oriental dance festivals, built around Egyptian dance workshops, gala performances and intensive study with Egyptian and international teachers.
9–15 July 2026 · organized by Raqia Hassan / Ahlan Wa Sahlan
Edition 2026 · Verified current edition
Teachers & performers
Line-up
Not completely exposed in accessible indexed page
Programme
Highlights
- Festival week at Pyramids Park Hotel, Cairo/Giza area.
Verification: Current dates verified from promoter/social indexing; full instructor roster should be rechecked against organiser programme before publication.
Archive
Previous editions
2015 · 24–31 July 2015
Verified edition
Not safely recoverable from accessible archive
Week-long Cairo festival format with workshops and stage programming.
Verification and sources
Dates verified from archived event listing; instructor list not safely reconstructed.
2010 · Dates not publicly recovered
Verified edition
Not safely recoverable from accessible archive
Cairo festival edition documented in contemporary dance-media coverage.
Verification and sources
Date/teacher list not fully recovered from accessible indexed material.
2009 · Dates not publicly recovered
10th anniversary (per contemporary source)
Not safely recoverable from accessible archive
Anniversary edition in Cairo with international workshops and shows.
Verification and sources
Edition number is supported by contemporary coverage; detailed daily programme not recovered.
1999 · Dates not publicly recovered
First festival according to Raqia Hassan interview / 2009 10th-anniversary logic
Not safely recoverable from accessible archive
International Oriental dance festival in Cairo; workshops and performance programme.
Verification and sources
Historical first-year conflict: another dance-heritage source states 2000. No inference made.
Research record
Verification: High, with a documented historical-date conflict
Partial public archive. Sources disagree on whether the first edition was 1999 or 2000; this conflict is preserved rather than resolved by inference.
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