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The grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group, delivered a lecture at the Institut du Monde Arabe [The Institute of the Arab World]. He attacked fundamentalism and asked young Muslims not to melt away and lose their culture and at the same time not to isolate...
UNESCO awarded Pope Shenouda III this year’s UNESCO Sing prize for tolerance. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture nominated Pope Shenouda for this prize which bears the name of the former Indian politician Sing.
Everyone interested in Egypt and its history will be excited by this Coptic exhibition in France. The same exhibition was presented at the Institut de Monde Arabe in Paris from May to September this year. It is a stunning and artistically radiant presentation of the classical Coptic period in...
The French have a fascination with anything Egyptian, which is why any exhibition of antiquities in France succeeds. This year, and for the first time, a Coptic antiquities exhibition is organized in the Arab World Institute in Paris.
The Egyptian Exhibition for Coptic Art started in France with an inauguration by Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, as a representative of the Minister of Culture. The exhibition will last until January of the coming year.
The French’s admiration is directed now to the Coptic art and civilization. The Coptic Art exhibition which the Arabic Institute inaugurated in Paris and the visit of some French journalists to the most important Coptic sites in Egypt, reveal the French interest in Coptic civilization.
Most exhibitions on Egyptian art abroad concerned ancient Egypt. In some exhibitions, however, also attention was given to religious art. In France and exhibition on "The Fatimid Treasures in Cairo", and focused a period which saw the coexistence of Coptic and Islamic art. In Austria some items of...
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