New murals now being designed in El Shorouk City

CAIRO, 11 July 2018: A number of murals are now being designed in El Shorouk City as part of Dar Misr project to add beauty to the place, said head of the city's development agency Sherif Sherbini on Wednesday.

The murals will be created by 60 students of the Applied Arts Faculty of Helwan University in cooperation with the New Urban Communities Authority, he added.

Cooperation between the faculty and the authority began in 2011 as such experiments allow students to come up with innovative ideas and apply what they have studied, said Helwan University Professor Heba Zohni who is in charge of the murals project.

She lauded the support of Prime Minister and Housing Minister Moustafa Madbouli to such an initiative.

El Shorouk is a city located at the northeast of Cairo. It is part of Greater Cairo. It was established upon a governmental decree issued in 1995 within the framework of the efforts of the Egyptian state to serve urban expansion and achieve several development goals, the most important of which is to ease population pressure through the redistribution of the population within the Greater Cairo area, and at the same time raise the standard of living, generate new job opportunities and implement new industrial projects.