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BA to be Represented at World Summit on the Information Society

Dr. Fathi Saleh, Director of the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been invited to participate in the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunisia in November 2005. CULTNAT received ...

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The Curtain, by Youssef Idriss

In cooperation with the International Association for Creation and Training( I-Act), the Arts Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is planning a theatre workshop based on the short story “Al- Setara” (The Curtain). The story was originally written by the late great Egyptian writer Youssif ...

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Dr. Serageldin Awarded Honorary Doctorate; Visits Australia and US

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, recently traveled to Sydney, Australia to accept an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Technology, and to address the university’s Class of 2004. In his address , Dr. Serageldin said that “much has been done to ...

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BA to Headquarter Anna Lindh Euro-Med Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures

At a meeting in Dublin on May 6, 2004, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, comprising EU foreign ministers, and the foreign ministers of several Mediterranean and Arab countries, announced that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will headquarter the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the ...

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Science Educators Participate in Science Day

Science educators came together at the Exploratorium on April 29 for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s second annual “Science Day,” hosted by the Library’s Planetarium Science Center. The event featured professional development topics for science teachers, including workshops on conducting scientific ...

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