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Jack Lang: “What they are doing in Arabia is a cultural revolution”

2022-11-30T17:46:35.414Z


INTERVIEW - The president of the Arab World Institute details his exhibition project on Khaybar, an unknown site between Medina and al-Ula.


In 2020, the Arab World Institute (IMA) devoted an exceptional exhibition entitled "AlUla, wonder of Arabia", revealing to the general public the other great Nabataean city, after Petra in Jordan, located in this vast oasis 7000 years old. of history.

Two years later, last winter, another IMA exhibition, “Jews of the East: A Millennial History,” opened on the largely unknown Khaybar, between Medina and al-Ula.

However, this site with high heritage value could soon be at the top of the bill.

Confidences of the president of the Arab World Institute, Jack Lang.

LE FIGARO.

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Al-Ula is now open to tourism.

But, at the time of the exhibition at the IMA, the site was inaccessible, tourist visas did not exist.

How did you discover it?

Jack Lang.

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The first time I saw images of al-Ula was during a dinner at the fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, with Prince Faisal Ben Salman, then governor of Medina.

The site was indeed…

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Source: lefigaro

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