GRAND OPENING
Opening day events included Arab performing artists Emel Mathlouthi, a night of opera with Fatima Al Hashmi, and Arqam Al Oubri, accompanied by the Escarabajo Blues Band, and a traditional band from Sharjah Institute for Heritage.
Also , the film Khorfakkan, based on the written work by Shaikh Sultan, was screened at the FICG Cinema Library and the UDG Cinema Forum.
The Sharjah pavilion host a session titled ‘The Arabic Lexicon and Its Impact on the Spanish Language’.