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The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology & Underwater Cultural Heritage, the Egyptian National Commission for Education Science and Culture, the UNESCO Office in Cairo, and the Ministry of Antiquities, organizing a workshop entitled "The Role of UNESCO in Preserving the Submerged Cultural Heritage in Egypt." The workshop will take place on Thursday, November 7, 2019, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Alexandria Library, Conference Center, Delegations Hall.

Attendance registration link: https://forms.gle/TRN71NHUScF2eTCY8

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The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Under the auspices of Mrs. Marianna V. Vardinoyannis; UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, President of the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina Advisory Board Member,
Founder and Honorary President of Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies

A glorious and moving ceremony was held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on Monday, 21 October 2019, in celebration of the ten-year Anniversary of the Center for Hellenic Studies, which was inaugurated in 2008 and has been operating in the Library at the initiative of the Vardinoyannis family.

The BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with EU Erasmus+

cordially invites you to

The International Seminar on Education and Capacity Building in Museum Studies

Tuesday, 8 October 2019; 10:30 am – 3:30 pm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Entrance, Auditorium Hall

The seminar is Open for Public; lecture will be accompanied by a translation into Arabic

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, organizes a lecture entitled:
Thonis-Heracleion: A Port at the Edge of the Great Green Sea
by: Dr. Damian Robinson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
Thursday, 3 October 2019; 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Entrance, Auditorium Hall
Open for public; lecture accompanied by a translation into Arabic.

Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandria in collaboration with Raquda Foundation for Art and Heritage invites you to attend the opening ceremony of Initiative

 “Alexandria World Heritage Simulation”

on Thursday 1st of August 2019 at 6:00 PM

BA Conference Hall, Lecture Hall.

Open for Public

The Initiative start on first of August till October

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) announces the beginning of registration for Master’s degrees in Hellenistic Studies from 1–15 August 2019.

Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with Southampton University, the Honor Frost Foundation in UK, and the UNESCO Cairo Office, cordially invites you to attend:

The International Seminar on Underwater Cultural Heritage

Thursday, 25 April 2019; 12:00 noon –3:00 pm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Entrance, Auditorium Hall

Open for public, lecture accompanied by a translation into Arabic.

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies cordially invites you to attend the lecture entitled:

The Vanishing of Nile Sailing boats:

A Study of Contemporary Traditional Maritime Cultural Material

Ziad Morsy

Centre for Maritime Archaeology – University of Southampton, UK

Wednesday, 20 February 2019; 12:00 noon
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Library, Auditorium Hall

Open for Public

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies in cooperation with the EAMENA project, Oxford University, cordially invites you to attend the inauguration of the photograph exhibition entitled:

Our Culture, Our Future: Heritage Exhibition

Tuesday, 12 February 2019; 2:00 pm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Conference Center, Entrance.

The exhibition will continue until Wednesday, 27 February 2019.

 The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies cordially invite you to attend lecture entitled:

Science and Technology to Leverage Culture and Cultural Heritage

Dr. Yasser El Shayeb

Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Thursday, 10 January 2019; 12:00 pm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main library, Auditorium Hall

For more information:

Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies

Tel.: + (203) 4839999     Ext. 1940

Web page: www.bibalex.org/hellenisticstudies

E-mail: hellenistic.studies@bibalex.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Achs.bibalex.org