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El Sawy Culture Wheel
One of Egypt's best-known private cultural centres, on Zamalek's Gezira Island in Cairo, hosting a wide range of arts and cultural events.
The story
El Sawy Culture Wheel is a cultural centre on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district of central Cairo. It was founded around 2003 by Mohamed El-Sawy, who named it after the novel series El-Sakkia ("The Wheel") by his father, the novelist Abdel Moneim El-Sawy. It is described as one of the first private cultural centres in Egypt and among the most widely known, a model for cultural institutions outside the state sector, and it is considered one of the country's most important cultural venues, receiving more than 20,000 visitors each month.
Good to know
- Founded by Mohamed El-Sawy and named after the El-Sakkia novels by his father, Abdel Moneim El-Sawy.
- It receives more than 20,000 visitors each month.