A photo on display during ‘Experience Tanzania’ photography exhibition which opened at Education City Student Center, yesterday. Pic: Abdul Basit/The Peninsula
Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) and Qatar Foundation (QF) yesterday opened a photography exhibition titled ‘Experience Tanzania’.
The exhibition, which is being held at Multaqa (Education City Student Center) and runs until December 8, gives visitors an opportunity to know more about the lifestyle, traditions, socioeconomic hierarchies and health systems of the local Tanzanian communities.
‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project supported by Students Affairs Division of Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar that allows students and faculty to explore and immerse themselves in Tanzanian urban rural cultures.
A number of people visited the exhibition to learn more about the lifestyle in Tanzania, its culture and what sets it apart from the rest of the world. Commenting on the exhibition’s opening, Fatma Mohammed Rajab, Ambassador of Tanzania to Qatar, said that the exhibition shows the beauty, the nature of Tanzania, its people, its animals and how its people welcome guests.
She said that the exhibition is being organised by Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) together with Qatar Foundation and it is curated by Dr. Dietrich Büsselberg.
“They frequently visit Tanzania to offer health checks and basic healthcare services to the local community. During their trip they also experienced beauty charm of Tanzania, its nature, its people, fauna and flora and then they come with this idea to organise such an exhibition to share their experience with people in Qatar,” she said. The Ambassador said this was the first time a photography exhibition on Tanzania was being organised in Qatar. Speaking to The Peninsula on the sideline of the exhibition, she said that the Embassy provided all the support to the organisers like the visa to visit Tanzania.
Rajab also pointed out that this exhibition is very important and will definitely attract more people to visit Tanzania and know more about its culture and lifestyle. The exhibition represents not only Tanzania but also African continent, because there exist a lot of similarities in African countries.
