Exhibitions and cultural activities

Winner of the CRT Banking Foundation’s scholarship for the Advanced Training Course for Cultural Project Managers of the Fitzcarraldo Foundation in Turin, Sherif El Sebaie has curated numerous exhibition and cultural initiatives. In 2005 he organized the world premiere of the National Geographic documentary on the mummy of Tut Ankh Amun at the Polytechnic of Turin, in the presence of the then Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities (and later appointed as the first Minister for Egyptian Antiquities) Dr. Zahi Hawass and directors Roberto Giacobbo and Brando Quilici.

At the Polytechnic of Turin he curated several exhibitions aiming to shed a light on the relations between different religions: In 2004 he curated “Islam and Orthodox Christianity“, in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Greek, Russian and Coptic Patriarchates and in 2008 “Islam and Judaism. Art, Faith, Coexistence”, with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Piedmont Region and the City of Turin which was inaugurated by an Arab-Israeli concert in the presence of Elazar Coen, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of Israel in Italy and David Bustamante, US Consul General for Press and Culture.

In 2010 he was commissioned by the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin to curate the exhibition “Star Knights. Under the Sky’s Dome“, funded by the University and the Piedmont Region in collaboration with the Center for Documentation of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Egypt (CULTNAT). The US Consul General, the Director of CULTNAT, the Cultural Attaché of the Egyptian Embassy in Rome and the academic and political authorities were present at the inauguration. In 2014 he curated, again for the Polytechnic, the exhibition “Italians from the East. Italian architects in Egypt from the 19th to the 21st century“, thanks to the contribution of the CRT Foundation in collaboration with the University of Florence. It was inaugurated in the presence of the Italian and Egyptian diplomatic and academic authorities.

For these last two initiatives, he was awarded the Certificate of Merit and Gratitude from the Cultural Office of the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Rome.