International Festival of Drums to promote peace among nations

CAIRO – 15 April 2018: Director and founder of the International Festival of Drums and Traditional Arts Intesar Abdel Fattah will hold a press conference to announce the details of the sixth edition of the festival at the Supreme Council of Culture on Sunday April 15.

Abdel Fattah will announce the countries and teams participating in the festival in 2018, pointing out that the workshops and events of the festival are scheduled to run between April 20 and 27. The schedule includes the opening and closing ceremonies.

The conference will be attended by Hatem Rabie, secretary general of the Supreme Council for Culture; Hisham Murad, head of External Cultural Relations Sector, Fathi Abdel Wahab, head of Cultural Development Fund Sector, and Nema Tawfiq, head of Internal Tourism Sector, Ministry of Tourism.The festival is considered to be a message of awareness delivered to the whole world, believing in the power of art to spread peace among nations.