The fourth session of the Cairo International Calligraphy Forum

Between Koranic verses, prophetic tales and famous sayings, professional calligraphers, amateurs and scholars of the Arabic language from around the world have painted and decorated hundreds of paintings that have restored Arabic calligraphy and its appeal in Cairo.

In Cairo, the International Museum of Calligraphy opened on Tuesday to 56 calligraphers from Egypt and 48 foreigners, representing 27 countries: United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, India , Pakistan, Nigeria, Italy and Great Britain.

China was the guest of honor of the fourth session. The organizers of this choice considered that it was difficult to show how far Arabic calligraphy extended beyond the geographic boundaries of Arab and Islamic countries.

Egypt's Minister of Culture, Inas Abdel Dayem, said at the opening that "the magic of the art of Arabic fonts transcends regional boundaries and began to spaces of international creations".

On the second floor of the Palace of the Arts, the Forum organized a special exhibition on the late artist Sayed Ibrahim (1897-1994), whose name included 53 paintings, some of which had never been shown.

In addition to paintings and works of art, the forum will hold a three-day scientific symposium devoted to about 30 researches on "the role of the school, the teacher and the family in the Learning and development skills of Arabic calligraphy "," the relationship between lines of print and traditional lines "and" lines of book covers "" And "abstract plastic treatments of Arabic calligraphy . "

The forum also pays tribute to four artists of Arabic calligraphy: Mohamed Rathil, Khalifa Al Shaimi of Egypt, Mohamed Abdel Hafiz Khobta of Morocco and Emirati Abdel Aziz Al Musallam.