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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