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MIA Organizes “Glimpses of India Painting” Competition


Mon 14 Oct 2019 | 03:17 PM
NaDa Mustafa

The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), in collaboration with the Maulana Azad Center for Indian Culture, is organizing an annual drawing competition “Glimpses of India Painting” for Egyptian school children with the participation of 12 Indian artists and nearly 50 Egyptian students on Tuesday, October 15.

The competition is organized for the three educational levels; elementary, preparatory and secondary. Last year's winning paintings exhibition will be opened and all participants will be honored.

Dr. Mamdouh Othman, director-general of the museum, expressed his happiness to cooperate with the Indian center, which was established in 1992. The center provides a number of cultural and artistic activities on a continuous basis to enhance good relations between the two countries.

Othman underlined the importance of organizing such competitions and events within the framework of the antiquities ministry’s keenness to support the Egyptian students’ artistic talents, noting that art is one of the key sources to record the history of peoples, transfer experiences and ideas as well as creating a better vision for the future.

Noteworthy, the MIA in Cairo is considered one of the greatest in the world, with its exceptional collection of rare woodwork and plaster artifacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world.