The Institut is dedicated to promoting the arts and the culture of the Arab world. It includes a museum, cinema, library and language center.
The building is starchitect Jean Nouvel's creation.
Dining on Premises
The restaurant (Le Zyriab),
"literary café" and a self-service snack bar.
French architect Jean Nouvel, 62, received
the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious
award in architecture (which is often compared to the Nobel prize in
science in the degree of honor it affords)...