Egypt Antiquities Ministry Says No Islamic Artefacts Are Missing

AHRAM.ONLINE
By Nevine El-Aref

EGYPT---A number of artefacts exhibited at Doha's Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA) are not from Cairo's Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA), Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said at a press conference on Monday. Over the weekend, artists and activists wrote on social media sites that 35 objects from Cairo's MIA had suddenly appeared in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Ibrahim pointed out that according to UNESCO's 1972 convention on Cultural Property Ownership, which Egypt signed in 1973, a country is able to recover its objects if displayed in any museum around the world as long as it has the relevant possession documents. [link]