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Why We’re Charging for TEDxCairo Seats

Starting this year, TEDxCairo will begin charging for its entry tickets. Please read below for further information;

Why charge?

We at TEDxCairo are constantly working on delivering a conference that spreads worthy ideas, in-line with the TED Conferences mission. But we also aspire to deliver a better, more fulfilling and engaging experience to our carefully curated live audience every year. In order to do so, the expenses are constantly on the rise. Since we are a non-profit, we rely solely on the generous donations of our sponsors, but they can only give us so much. This is to cover more costs for a better TEDxCairo experience.

Does this comply with the TEDx guidelines by TED?

Yes, it does. All TEDx events are allowed to charge for their tickets. TEDxCairo is a Level 2 licensed TEDx event. Under that stipulation, we are allowed to charge up to 250 USD a ticket.

Does this mean I no longer have to apply?

No, it doesn’t. Charging doesn’t change the system to a first-come-first-serve one. We still carefully curate our audience to include the most diverse collection of creative and leading thinkers and doers in our community.

How much is the ticket?

The TEDxCairo ticket is valued at 500 EGP. However, our sponsors are generously covering 60% of the charge this year, which means we are charging 200 EGP per ticket.

What if I can’t afford the charge?

We have a sponsorship program you can apply to. In the application there will be a section dedicated to those who would like to apply for the sponsorship.

How do you decide who qualifies for a sponsorship?

Primarily, we look at the determinants of income that we have in the application, i.e. profession and age. This means that the priority goes to people on the lower end of the age-scale and university students. We also ask you why you’re applying for a sponsorship, so make sure you make your reasons very clear in that question. However, there is no set category. We try our best to be as accurate and fair as possible.

Does my application for a sponsorship affect the status of my application?

No, it doesn’t. It could happen that you get accepted but your sponsorship request is denied. In this case you will receive an acceptance mail which you can either confirm or not, based on your ability to pay.

Does paying full price mean more privileges or benefits than being sponsored?

No, it doesn’t. No member of the TEDxCairo audience gets any sort of privileges over another based on how much they pay. All seats carry the exact same value.

Check out all the photos from the Cairo Inside Out Project pasting on the streets of Maadi, Cairo on our facebook page!

It’s lovely to see the people stop by and take pictures of the posters, you can almost hear them talking about who these faces belong to. It really is curious.

Enjoy the photos.

- Nadine.

We just finished pasting the Inside Out Project portraits we had taken a few months ago in Maadi, Cairo! It was a delightful (and sticky) couple of hours. We have some video clips and a lot of photographs and we’ll be uploading them soon enough. We’re really grateful to everyone who took part in this project; through photography they enabled us to communicate the core message: In a mega-city like Cairo, we might seem so different. Yet despite all the differences, we are very similar. Have a great weekend, - Nadine.

We just finished pasting the Inside Out Project portraits we had taken a few months ago in Maadi, Cairo!

It was a delightful (and sticky) couple of hours. We have some video clips and a lot of photographs and we’ll be uploading them soon enough.

We’re really grateful to everyone who took part in this project; through photography they enabled us to communicate the core message:

In a mega-city like Cairo, we might seem so different. Yet despite all the differences, we are very similar.

Have a great weekend,

- Nadine.

The Cairo Inside Out posters are finally here! Currently, we’re looking into where we’ll be posting these on the streets of Cairo. Our statement is that you need to look around – especially in mega cities – to understand how different yet similar we all are. In a city like Cairo, there are so many subcultures you wouldn’t be surprised if some had their own lingo/dialect. But at the end of the day, we’re all made of the same stuff so to speak. We’ll keep you posted on the updates! - Nadine.

The Cairo Inside Out posters are finally here! Currently, we’re looking into where we’ll be posting these on the streets of Cairo. Our statement is that you need to look around – especially in mega cities – to understand how different yet similar we all are.


In a city like Cairo, there are so many subcultures you wouldn’t be surprised if some had their own lingo/dialect. But at the end of the day, we’re all made of the same stuff so to speak.


We’ll keep you posted on the updates!


- Nadine.

Our last release from TEDxCairo2011: Resurrection - Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb on nano technology.

A couple of photos from the “Cairo Inside Out” project that one of our own volunteers took! You can find all the photos on our pinboard here. With any luck, we’ll be sending them for print and putting them up on the streets of Cairo in a couple of months’ time.