On the occasion of marking 110 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Serbia and Egypt, a mural portraying traditionally good relations between the two countries and two friendly nations was presented in the consular premises of the Serbian Embassy in Cairo. Mural was officially presented during the visit of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Veljko Odalovica to Cairo, at the beginning of October 2018.
Mural was painted by Maha Ibrahim, a young Egyptian artist, where she highlighted meeting and pervasion of the elements of Serbian cultural and historical heritage with the Egyptian. On one side was shown the Orthodox monastery Gracanica, located in Kosovo and Metohija, and the fresco of White Angel, a masterpiece of Serbian and European painting, which is located in the Church of the Assumption of Christ in the Mileseva Monastery, which represents the greater part of the Serbian side of the composition which melts on the other side of the mural with the symbols of Egyptian history, culture and tradition, represented by the images of the pyramids in Giza, the sphinxes (all elements of ancient Egyptian history and tradition) and mosque minarets (elements of Arabic Muslim history, culture and traditions on which modern Egypt was created.
In addition to officially established diplomatic relations 110 years ago, the ties of Egypt and Serbia date back to the developed Middle Ages. In the second decade of the 12th century, Saint Sava, the brother of the Serbian King Stefan the First-crowned, visited during his second trip to holy places in the East, among others, Egypt. Before he visited the Sinai, he visited the Cairo egyptian sultan Al Malik Al Kamil from the Ayyubid dynasty, who received and hosted him with great state honors. The sultan sent Saint Sava from Cairo to Sinai, supplying him with all necessary things for the journey and giving him gifts of honor as it is in historical sources confirmed as extremely valuable "gifts from the Nile". Mural was exhibited at the consular premises in the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Cairo and expressed the long-lasting deep and friendly relations between the Serbian and Egyptian people.