Egyptian Museum, Turin's Arab community: all at the museum on Saturday

The Arab community is also mobilizing to support the Egyptian Museum in Turin, at the center of the notorious affair involving director Christian Greco and Fratelli d’Italia party leader Giorgia Meloni. Subject of the debate, the discount that until March 31 the Museum reserves for anyone who speaks Arabic: a free ticket if two people enter. In fact, the representative of the Egyptian community in Turin, Amir Younes, launched an appeal for his compatriots on Saturday to visit the museum. An appeal immediately taken up by the other national communities in countries where Arabic is a prevalent language.

“The Arab communities,” reads a press release issued by Co-mai, the Community of the Arab World in Italy, in the voice of its founder Foad Aodi, “will take to the streets on Saturday afternoon in support of Director Greco with numerous small ’Pharaohs’ in favor of culture and against instrumentalization. This is how the communities of the Arab world in Italy and Piedmont respond to the sterile and harmful political instrumentalizations against the Director of the Egyptian Museum and against Arabs and Muslims in Italy, promoting an initiative Saturday afternoon in front of the Egyptian Museum with representatives of our Arab communities in Piedmont including cultural centers, the Egyptian and Tunisian community and the Arabic language school the Nil.” “Our concern,” the note continues, “increases day by day because of this election campaign targeted against Arabs ,Muslims and immigrants by Salvini and Meloni without ever talking about concrete proposals in favor of integration and dialogue.”

So many Turinese expressed their willingness to participate in the day at the Egyptian Museum in the company of Arab communities: an important sign of solidarity, integration and social cohesion.

Egyptian Museum, Turin's Arab community: all at the museum on Saturday

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