Muslim Festival:

he Festival of Muslim Cultures, a national celebration of Muslim cultures held in the United Kingdom, began in January 2006 and ended July 2007.

From official site;[1][broken citation] The festival was created out of the need to encourage a better understanding between Muslims and non Muslims (as a two-way process), to promote respect for Muslim cultures and to demonstrate how culture creates the pathways that connect us all together.

Organizers say that festival events were chosen because they represent the best of the Muslim arts world and they “portray diversity and plurality”.

• The historical exhibition “Palace and Mosque: Islamic Treasure of the Middle East from the V&A” at Sheffield Millennium Galleries, drawn from one of the most renowned Islamic art collections in the world.
• “Egyptian Landscapes: 50 years of Tapestry Weaving at the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Cairo”, an exhibition of woven tapestries created over the last 50 years in a village near the pyramids of Giza, at the Brunei Gallery, London.
• “Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers” at Oriel Ceri Richards, Swansea.
• “Charity, Orphans & Foundlings In the Pre-Modern Islamic World,” lecture by Dr. Gerald Hawting from SOAS held at the Foundling Museum.