The Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt has the pleasure to inform you that the 30 winning pictures of its first photo competition “Egypt: Life in a Picture” will be exhibited in Toulouse, France on the occasion of the 5th “Le Marathon Des Mots”.
This year’s “Le Marathon Des Mots” will take place from Thursday 11 until Sunday 14 June in Toulouse. Last year, more than 72,000 visitors attended around 200 readings, debates, and performances organized during 4 days and 4 nights in more than 20 venues around Toulouse.
Every year, “Le Marathon Des Mots” honors a literary and artistic capital inviting writers and artists to present the culture of the invited/honored capital. After Lisbon in 2005, Barcelona in 2006, London in 2007, Algiers in 2008, “Le Marathon Des Mots” this year has chosen “Alexandria and Cairo”.
On this occasion, “Le Marathon Des Mots” has invited the exhibition “Egypt: Life in a Picture” at the Theatre National de Toulouse from the 10 to 14 June 2009.
“Egypt: Life in a Picture” was the first photo competition organized by the Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt. The goal of this competition was to stimulate and to promote the creativity of amateur photographers in Egypt and to give them the opportunity to showcase their work and to meet the public.
Composed of a group of eminent artists such as Ramses Marzouk, Chris Bouroncle, Mohamed Gabr, Randa Shaath, Aleya Hamza as well as Javier Menendez who represented the Delegation of the European Commission, the jury selected 30 photos out of 500 that were submitted. The winning pictures were exhibited from the 3rd until the 28th of December 2008 at the Townhouse Gallery, the most active and creative gallery of contemporary art in downtown Cairo.

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