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The BA Antiquities Museum Uses Braille Cards

The BA Antiquities Museum started using Braille Cards describing its most significant collections to ensure social inclusion of the visually impaired and people with special needs. The Cards portray and provide detailed information about the antiquities to enhance the blind and visually impaired ...

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Biodiversity and the Effects of Climate Change in a Seminar at the BA

The BA is organizing a seminar entitled “Biodiversity and the Effects of Climate Change” on Monday 27 December 2010. Held as part of the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) 2010, the seminar hosts Dr. Mohamed El-Qassas, Professor at the Faculty of Science; Dr. Moustafa Fouda, Biodiversity ...

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The World Braille Day at the BA

The BA Taha Hussein Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired organizes a celebration on the occasion of the “World Braille Day” on 4 January 2011. This international celebration is held annually as a tribute to the birthday of Louis Braille, born in 1809, the genius whose invention changed the ...

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Arab Theology in Cairo Salon

The weekly Cairo Salon TV Show, presented by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, devotes an episode on “Arab theology”. The first part will be aired on Channel One on Friday, 24 December 2010, at 8:30 pm. In this episode, Serageldin hosts Dr. Youssef Zeidan, Director of ...

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Waiting for Godot in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 29 December 2010. Participants will read Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett . The best example of the Theater of the Absurd, the play is about two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for a ...

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