The Cairo Opera House and the German Embassy in Cairo announced the decision to postpone two concerts, which were scheduled to feature a leading German orchestra  this week, after it came under public pressure and security concerns. The cancellation comes as Marwa el-Sherbini’s family – the Egyptian woman murdered in a Dresden, Germany, courtroom in July – pressured the Egyptian culture ministry to bar the German orchestra from playing in the country.  The reasons for the postponement came on the grounds that “the German conductor was going to speak on the relationship between the Egyptian and German people and confirm that this crime [the killing of Sherbini] should not affect the relationship between the two countries and peoples, and requested a moment of silence on the soul.”

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