Dar al-Athar al-islamiyyah 19th cultural season kicks off

Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah (DAI) launched Monday the 19th Cultural Season with a lecture on the impressive and priceless collection of Kuwait-based Tareq Rajab Museum. "The Museum houses a collection of very rare items such as the North African Kufi manuscripts," Director of Tareq Rajab Museum Ziad Rajab said in a lecture attended by a large audience including DAI Director General Sheikha Hessa Al-Sabah. "It also includes historical books on calligraphy, chemistry, medicine, Quran and Muslims history." He also shed lights on the sources of some rare items and how they got it. Tareq Rajab Museum houses a collection of over thirty thousand items collected over the last fifty years, of which approximately ten thousand are on permanent display. The Museum is divided into two parts: in Area A, calligraphy, manuscripts, miniatures, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade-, wood- and stone-carvings are exhibited. Area B contains objects which were produced in the Islamic world during the last ca. 250 years, or costumes, textiles, jewellery and musical instruments. The lecture signals the start of the DAI 19th Cultural Season of the DAI. The important event comprises a wide-array of art and cultural activities; workshops, lectures, concerts, galleries, formative art exhibitions and others. The DAI said it seeks to attract people of all ages and fans of different arts and cultural activities to the event. The main goal of the cultural season is to provide the community with quality opportunities to explore and learn more about the art and culture of this region and the Islamic world.