![]() ![]() ![]() His country was quite literally split in two and, as his shock turned to shame, a long search for truth began - one that would upend his entire life and turn him into one of the region’s most promising storytellers. It was February 7, 2011, and Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani was sitting with his family in Khartoum as they read out the results to the South Sudanese independence referendum. In the case of “Goodbye Julia,” the Saudi-backed film that won the first-ever Freedom Award at the Cannes Film Festival last month, those questions were born in a single historic moment. “The exhibition is a memento not only of Syria, but of all countries in the world where a war is raging and monuments are being damaged,” Lukes added.ĭUBAI: Great art often raises more questions than answers. “I hope the situation in Syria has calmed down enough so that they won’t be damaged again,” he told AFP. The cooperation led to the creation of a joint archaeological team working near the western Syrian city of Latakia.Īfter the month-long exhibition, the artefacts will return to Syria by the end of May, Lukes said. “We started to help them by supplying material which was indispensable for them to maintain, conserve, transport and treat artefacts mainly from war zones,” said Lukes. Prague’s National Museum has been cooperating with Syria’s Directorate General for Antiquities and Museums since 2017. The exhibits include a gold-coated pin from 1600-1200 BC, bronze razors and a knife, as well as bronze and copper statuettes of ancient gods. “There are metal, bronze and iron objects and the funerary portraits from Palmyra,” said Lukes. Inspired by previous cooperation with Sudan and Afghanistan, the National Museum brought the twenty artefacts from Syria in 2022 and its team of six restorers took a year to repair them. ![]() Syrian government forces retook control of Palmyra in 2017 after the city had served as a stage for public executions, with many of its famed landmarks destroyed by the Daesh group. “These portraits were all smashed with metal hammers,” he added at the “Restored Face” exhibition. “Things get damaged by fighting, on purpose for ideological reasons, or by local people looking for something to sell,” National Museum director Michal Lukes told AFP. The objects include three limestone funerary portraits from the UNESCO-listed ancient site of Palmyra, which were damaged by Daesh group militants who took the city by force in 2015. PRAGUE: Twenty artefacts repaired by Czech art restorers after being damaged during the civil war in Syria are on display at Prague’s National Museum before their return back home next month. ![]()
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