CAIRO Aug 7 SEE – Nine inaugurated palaces would bring culture to remote and deprived parts of Egypt, endorsing positive traditions and precepts and preserving cultural heritage and the Egyptian identity, Ahmed Awwad the head of the Cultural Palaces Authority, announced on Monday.
The palaces include the Gamal Abdel-Nasser Cultural Palace in Assiut, which provides for a 145-seat theatre as well as numerous spaces, a library and a small Nasser museum.
Similar facilities are being established in Al-Adessat and Hod Al-Remal in Luxor, while renovation work is underway at existing palaces in Al-Bahr Al-Azam, Giza governorate in Cairo, Belbais in Sharqiya governorate, Kafr Al-Sheikh in the Delta and Sharm El-Sheikh in Sinai.
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