Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Opening of the Seventh International Forum for Caricature

Under the patronage of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem , Minister of Culture , Dr. Khaled Sorour, Head of the Plastic Arts Sector, Mr. Sabri Said, Head of the Foreign Cultural Relations Sector , and Mostafa El Sheikh, President of the Egyptian Caricature Association , inaugurate the Seventh International Forum for Caricature, which is organized by the Plastic Arts Sector and the Foreign Cultural Relations Sector, And the Egyptian Caricature Association, at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Arts Palace

The artist Fawzi Morsi, the Commissar of the forum, said that the committee for selecting works, with the membership of the artist Ahmed Alawi, the artist Farouk Moussa, Professor Mohamed Ibrahim Tawfiq, and the artist Samir Abdel Ghani, chose nearly 400 artworks, for about 297 artists, representing 62 Arab and foreign countries. Among them are Belgium, Ukraine, Peru, Brazil, Russia, India, Croatia, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Tunisia, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates.

It is noteworthy that the first axis of this forum deals with the subject of music, as it is the messenger of love and peace, and it is the only language that all peoples understand and through which we can express all the secrets of the human soul. We hear, enjoy, and think about how to rebuild the person who felt fear and anxiety and who felt that the world was on the verge of an end, music would bring us together again

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As for the axis of the caricature, we chose the woman of Arab singing, Umm Kulthum, as a symbol of the voice around which the great masses from the ocean to the Gulf turned, as the West celebrated her as a golden voice and an unparalleled throat.
The conference will continue until July 30
The opening of the Seventh International Caricature Meeting next Wednesday at the Palace of Arts in the Egyptian Opera House organized by the Foreign Cultural Relations Sector of the Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Fine Arts Sector and the Egyptian Caricature Association. Thanks to the editor of the meeting, the artist Sadiq Fawzi. Thanks to all the friends in the Egyptian Caricature Association for their great efforts to make the meeting a successful course, God willing, to move Standing water in the world of caricature and reviving this orphaned art
. before it dies. A big thank you to all participants from all over the world. The events continue from July 20-30.
Courtesy: Mr.Fawzy Morsy
Greetings From: India Toons

 Emad Gomaa Emam