Islamic Art Network

Press Conference

A press conference at the American University in Cairo preceded the opening of the exhibition. At the press conference Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Sir Derek Plumbly, British Ambassador to Egypt were joined by Mr. Philip Croom, Director of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library and Ms. Noha Abou Khatwa, Director of the Islamic Art Network. They have described the importance of the work of Sir Archibald Creswell who devoted most of his life to documenting Cairo’s Islamic architectural heritage.



Panel at the press conference. Speakers: His Excellency Sir Derek Plumbly, British Ambassador to Egypt; Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities; Mr. Philip Croom, Director of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo; Dr. S. Abdallah Schleifer, Director of the Adham Center for Television Journalism at the American University in Cairo and Academic Liaison Officer for the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation; and Ms. Noha Abou-Khatwa, Director of the Islamic Art Network of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation.		From right: His Excellency Shaykh Dr. Ali Jum‘a, the Grand Mufti of Egypt; Dr. David Arnold, President of the American University in Cairo; Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities; and His Excellency Sir Derek Plumbly, British Ambassador to Egypt at the opening of the exhibition in the Sony Gallery.



From right: His Excellency Shaykh Dr. Ali Jum‘a, the Grand Mufti of Egypt; Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities; His Excellency Sir Derek Plumbly, British Ambassador to Egypt; and Dr. David Arnold, President of the American University in Cairo at the opening of the exhibition in the Sony Gallery.		His Excellency Shaykh Dr. Ali Jum‘a, the Grand Mufti of Egypt; and Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in the Sony Gallery.