Events of The Festival
Initial events included
- The historical exhibition “Palace and Mosque: Islamic Treasure of the Middle East from the V&A” at Sheffield Millennium Galleries, drawn from one of the most renowned Islamic art collections in the world.
- “Egyptian Landscapes: 50 years of Tapestry Weaving at the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Cairo”, an exhibition of woven tapestries created over the last 50 years in a village near the pyramids of Giza, at the Brunei Gallery, London.
- “Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers” at Oriel Ceri Richards, Swansea.
- “Charity, Orphans & Foundlings In the Pre-Modern Islamic World,” lecture by Dr. Gerald Hawting from SOAS held at the Foundling Museum.
Other events planned by the Festival’s programme partners ranged from drama from the Middle East; a colourful contribution to the Edinburgh Festivals; a conference on “Faith and Identity in Contemporary Culture” in Manchester; a gathering of poets in Bradford and Leeds; contemporary British Muslim artists in Birmingham; a Pakistani film festival in Glasgow as well as a Sufi Festival; Muslim writers at the Hay Literary Festival; Quranic recitation in Leicester; an arts programme in Cardiff; and early music in York.
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