Opera House Hosts 'For The Love of Egypt And Yemen'

Dr. Magdy Saber, Head of the Opera House, inaugurated inaugurate an exhibition entitled "For The Love of Egypt And Yemen" by Mohamed Abdo Saba at 7:00 pm on Monday 9 September at Ziad Bakir Hall in the Music Library.

The exhibition includes 40 paintings using oil paintings deal with enjoying the beautiful landscapes in Egypt and Yemen.

It is worthy of note that Mohamed Saba is a researcher; he got a master's degree in "Heritage And Popular Culture" from the Academy of Arts in Cairo.

He has held many private exhibitions in Egypt and Yemen, participated in exhibitions abroad and received many important artistic awards.

The exhibition will run until Friday, 13 September.

The foreign relations of Yemen are the relationships and policies that Yemen maintains with other countries. It is a member of the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Yemen participates in the nonaligned movement. The Republic of Yemen accepted responsibility for all treaties and debts of its predecessors, the YAR and the PDRY. Additionally, Yemen has acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has stressed the need to render the Middle East region free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to Wikipedia.

The geography and ruling Imams of North Yemen kept the country isolated from foreign influence before 1962. During the 1920s, the government of Yemen forged relations with the Italian government under Mussolini, which led to the conclusion of an Italian-Yemeni friendship treaty on September 2, 1926. This gave the Sana'a government diplomatic support vis-a-vis the Saudi government, which had aggressive designs on Yemeni territory. The country's relations with Saudi Arabia were defined by the Treaty of Taif in 1934 which delineated the northernmost part of the border between the two kingdoms and set the framework for commerce and other interactions. The Taif Agreement has been renewed periodically in 20-year increments, and its validity was reaffirmed in 1995. Relations with the British colonial authorities in Aden and the south were usually tense.