Min Fat Ademoh Tah’ Festival Runs September 9-18

Heritage and handicrafts festival is hosted in Cairo's historic Bayt El-Sinnary

By Kaylan Geiger 

  The fourth annual Min Fat Ademoh Tah Festival — featuring handcrafts, art exhibits and performances — takes place at Cairo’s Sennary House September 9-18. This year’s festival is organized in cooperation with the Chinese Embassy in Cairo and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and it will feature Chinese and Egyptian styled handcrafts, workshops, film screenings and other performance shows. The “Min Fat Ademoh Tah” Festival, which refers to an old Egyptian saying meaning “He Who Loses His Past is Lost,” aims to revive Egypt’s heritage of arts and crafts. The festival is being held in another piece of heritage: the 18th-century Bayt El-Sinnary (the Sennary House), which once housed Napoleon's team of scholars as they documented Pharaonic antiquities for the comprehensive Le Description de l’Egypte (Description of Egypt).   The festival is open 6-10 p.m., and the Sennary House is in Sayyida Zeinab on Haret El Mong, behind El-Saneya School (across from the Sayyida Zeinab Mosque).  For more information, call (02) 2390-9471, email bayet.alsennary@bibalex.org, or visit the Facebook page Bayt El-Sinnari, Twitter @BaytAlSinnari or the Bibliotheca Alexandrina website.