Editing Cairo (section)

==Culture==
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[[File:Cairo opera house.jpg|right|thumb|Cairo Opera House, at the National Cultural Center, [[Zamalek]] district]]
[[File:ModernEgypt, Khedivial Opera House, BAP 25178.jpg|thumb|Khedivial Opera House, 1869]]

===Cultural tourism in Egypt===
{{Main|Cultural tourism in Egypt}}

===Cairo Opera House===
{{Main|Cairo Opera House}}

[[President Mubarak]] inaugurated the new Cairo Opera House of the Egyptian National Cultural Centres on 10 October 1988, 17 years after the Royal Opera House had been destroyed by fire. The National Cultural Centre was built with the help of [[JICA]], the Japan International Co-operation Agency and stands as a prominent feature for the [[Egypt–Japan relations|Japanese-Egyptian co-operation]] and the friendship between the two nations.

===Khedivial Opera House===
{{Main|Khedivial Opera House}}

The [[Khedivial Opera House]], or Royal Opera House, was the original opera house in Cairo. It was dedicated on 1 November 1869 and burned down on 28 October 1971. After the original opera house was destroyed, Cairo was without an opera house for nearly two decades until the opening of the new Cairo Opera House in 1988.

===Cairo International Film Festival===
{{Main|Cairo International Film Festival}}

Cairo held its first international [[film festival]] 16 August 1976, when the first [[Cairo International Film Festival]] was launched by the Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics, headed by Kamal El-Mallakh. The Association ran the festival for seven years until 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cairo International Film Festival - Short Film Competition |url=https://filmfreeway.com/CairoInternationalFilmFestival |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=FilmFreeway |language=en}}</ref>

This achievement lead to the President of the Festival again contacting the [[FIAPF]] with the request that a competition should be included at the 1991 Festival. The request was granted.

In 1998, the Festival took place under the presidency of one of Egypt's leading actors, [[Hussein Fahmy]], who was appointed by the [[Ministry of Culture (Egypt)|Minister of Culture]], [[Farouk Hosny|Farouk Hosni]], after the death of Saad El-Din Wahba. Four years later, the journalist and writer Cherif El-Shoubashy became president.

===Cairo Geniza===
{{Main|Cairo Geniza}}
[[File:Solomon Schechter studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah, c. 1898.jpg|thumb|[[Solomon Schechter]] at work in Cambridge University Library, studying the fragments of the [[Cairo Geniza]], {{Circa|1898}}]]

The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the ''[[genizah]]'' of the [[Ben Ezra Synagogue]] (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), [[the Basatin cemetery]] east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to 1880 AD and have been archived in various American and European libraries. The Taylor-Schechter collection in the [[University of Cambridge]] runs to 140,000 manuscripts; a further 40,000 manuscripts are housed at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]].