Armenian President’s spouse, Sheikha of Kuwait visit Cafesjian Center for Arts in Yerevan

Nouneh Sarkissian, spouse of the President of Armenia, and Sheikha of Kuwait, Director General of Kuwait’s Museum of Islamic Antiquities (DAI) Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah visited the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, a museum in Yerevan, on September 16, the Armenian Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The Kuwaiti delegation members toured the exhibition halls of the Center, got acquainted with its history.

At the end of the tour Mrs. Nouneh Sarkissian said like with all the remaining countries, with Kuwait as well Armenia is interested to have close cultural ties. “As Sheikha Hussah is deeply aware of the Arabic culture, we decided to invite here and introduce our culture, with the expectation that we can carry out an exchange. We propose to bring her and her husband’s own collection of Islamic manuscripts and books here. And we will temporarily transfer the collection of Arabic manuscripts from Matenadaran. In this way we will exchange our cultures, because culture, music and books first of all connect peoples”, Mrs. Sarkissian said.

“We are very grateful for this wonderful invitation because Armenia was presented to us in the best way. We are really very excited to be here where we watch different branches of art and culture. We are very impressed. Based on the proposal of our Armenian partners we plan to conduct an ...