AL-SHORFA.COM
By Waleed Abu al-Khair
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| Facade of Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo prior to bombing |
EGYPT---Art experts and enthusiasts strongly condemned the devastation wreaked last week at the
Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, which was
damaged in a blast aimed at the nearby Cairo security directorate on Friday (January 24th). Two car bombs exploded outside the directorate last week, killing four people and inflicting heavy damage on the building and collections of the Museum of Islamic Art, located opposite the directorate on Port Said Street. The museum occupies a historic building built in 1903 as a library for Egyptian books, which in 1952 was converted into a museum featuring a collection of around 100,000 Islamic artefacts including some of the personal belongings of Prophet Mohammed, AFP reported. [
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