'Karima meets Lisbon meets Miguel meets Cairo' is the performance that emerged out of a collaboration between artists Miguel Pereira (Portugal) and Karima Mansour (Eygpt). Their work together was a result of a year-long process as part of Encounters. During their year of working together, it became clear that their collaboration would not work, at least not according to the intentions and assumptions that either of the artists had when they first decided to create a Encounters performance with one another.

"...what I understood as being the main problem between Karima and Miguel was that Karima felt challenged by Miguel seeing Karima as an Egyptian from his position in a more dominant cultural paradigm. While Karima was saying “that’s what you think, but I am not really like that...I am questioning you and your position and the way you work”. And then the audience was saying, “well you are not really Egyptian because you were educated outside, and you’re not doing the traditional Egyptian work”... while Miguel also questioned his dominant position and his relation to otherness... in otherwords, it was as though each has a false perception to each other and false perception to themselves...” — ALMOSTREAL advisor Kyong Park observations on Karima and Miguel's collaboration during the Lisbon getogether 12 June, 2006