Hamada Ali

Review of Sawy Culturewheel

El Sawy Culturewheel is one of the first private c...

El Sawy Culturewheel is one of the first private cultural centers in Egypt and is the most widespread and is a model for cultural entities in the post-cultural era. The center is located in Zamalek Island, Cairo.

Sakia Mohamed El Sawy was the son of the Egyptian writer Abdel Moneim El Sawy in 2005 and named the five-year-old Sakia, considered his father's most famous work. He began to think of creating a creative cultural center encompassing all kinds of arts and literature that attracts different layers of the public. The place was chosen under the 15th of May Bridge on 26th of July Street in front of Zamalek Central. It is accessible from the Balloon Theater by crossing the bridge and descending the stairway directly on the Sakia

Mohammed Al-Sawy designed the project and started building it and developing perceptions about the access methods developed by the center with the help of other colleagues. The center began to organize concerts to attract the audience as music and singing are the most widespread arts among the people, and it was a variety and different from the mainstream of music at the time, was the most prominent stars of these concerts jazz bands, gypsy music and rap and other cultures of different cultures from around the world.

Many other activities were then introduced to the center. And then began to provide poetry evenings through concerts and then presented separately in private evenings. Sakia recently organized a festival inspired by the idea of the Okaz poetry market under the name of "Okaz Poetry", in which poets from various governorates of Egypt participated and continued for three days.