Browse the years of Arab Cultural Weeks Hamburg and discover their programmes and events.
The programme booklet for the Arab Cultural Weeks 2026 is now online and updated! We look forward to many exciting events and memorable moments. Share the programme with your family, friends and communities!
The 2025 Arab Cultural Weeks bring together music, art, literature and conversation. Explore this edition’s documented events and cultural encounters.
The closing celebration of the Arab Cultural Weeks took place yesterday afternoon, 14 December 2024. This year's event was particularly significant because the programme included an Egyptian Cultural Day for the first time. This first-time addition attracted many guests and became a special highlight of the Arab Cultur
The eleventh Arab Cultural Weeks took place from 9 May to 30 June 2015 under the theme “Migration, Integration and Diversity”. The project grew out of cooperation between the University of Hamburg, Gusour “Bridges for Culure Exchange” and institutions including the Northern Church, the State Agency for Civic Education,
The tenth Arab Cultural Weeks took place in Hamburg from 28 October to 27 November 2013. The tenth anniversary was intended to be special, and in retrospect it was a complete success. Gabriele von Stritzky led and organised the programme. Co-organiser Dr Mohammed Khalifa, a familiar face of the cultural weeks, had taug
The Middle East Cultural Weeks took place in Hamburg from 10 to 30 April 2012. The organisers were Dr Atef Botros, Dr Detlef Görrig, Dr Mohammed Khalifa, Hanna Lehming and Martina Severin-Kaiser. Upheavals and new beginnings across the Arab world were in full swing when the team began planning a new series in spring 20
The Arab Cultural Weeks took place in Hamburg from 18 to 28 October 2011. Led by Dr Mohammed Khalifa, the organising team delivered an ambitious, informative and varied programme. Within a wider cultural programme, scholars of Islamic studies and the social sciences examined the unfolding political upheavals. Events pr
“Salaam Aleikum”: with this Arabic welcome, and greetings in the languages of other Middle Eastern peoples and religions, the Middle East Cultural Weeks 2010 invited the public to their events. From 5 to 28 April 2010, an exceptional film programme, lectures, music, Gulf photography, encounters, readings and discussion
The Arab Cultural Weeks also offered a series of events in 2009. Partners were the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, the Middle East Department of the North Elbian Mission Centre, the Ecumenical Council of the North Elbian Church and the German–Egyptian Society. The focus was on reporting current events in the Middle East a
The fourth Arab Cultural Festival took place in Hamburg from 22 to 25 May 2008. It had two main themes: modern interpretations of Arab classics, presented in two readings and three concerts; and a focus on Yemen, building on the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology's exhibition of historical photography of the Orient. The festi
