Saroukhan Street

ONE OF CAIRO STREETS TO BE NAMED AFTER SARUKHAN

CAIRO, DECEMBER 29, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. By the decree of the Cairo mayor, one of the city's streets will be named after Alexander Sarukhan - the famous Armenian satirical painter - in recognition of his contribution to the Egyptian satirical painting art, the newspaper "Marmara" reported, citing the national literary weekly "Torch-Bearer" (Cairo). Sarukhan was much respected in the Arab information circles and worked for many years in such Arab papers as "Roch el Yusuf", "Akher Saa" and "Akhpar Yeliom", creating the image of El Masri Efendi (Egyptian). In 1973 he participated in an international exhibition in Montreal where he was awarded the title "Patriarch of Satirical Painters". His exhibitions were held in Beirut, Aleppo, Toronto, New York, Boston, Detroit, Paris and other cities. He is the author of a number of works, of which "This War", "We through Our Eyeglasses" and "We Don't Know Armenian" are noteworthy. A. Sarukhan illustrated the novels "Comrade Panjuni" by Yervand Otian and "Respectful Beggars" by Hakob Paronian.