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Cairo · Downtown
Makan — Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts
Zar and Nubian music nights, in a small Downtown room.
€ BudgetOur favourite
An association that documents and keeps alive Egypt's traditional musics: zar, Nubian and Sufi music, Upper Egyptian songs. Concerts are held in a room of a few dozen seats, musicians a metre from the audience.
The extra bit
The zar night is the one to see: ritual trance music you hear almost nowhere else.
Know before you go
Small room and fixed concert days: come early, there is no online booking.
