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Dr. Essam Elsaeed Wins the General Union of Arab Archaeologists Award

Dr. Essam Elsaeed, a professor of the history of Egypt and the Ancient Near East at Alexandria University and the Director of the BA Manuscript Center, has won the 2016 Dr. Abdulrahman al-Tayeb al-Ansary Award, which is organized and presented by the General Union of Arab Archaeologists. This award ...

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“Teaching Arabic to Arabic Native Speakers” in a Seminar at the BA

In celebration of the World Arabic Language Day, the BA Manuscripts Center – in collaboration with the Arabic Language Department, at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University – is organizing a seminar entitled “Teaching Arabic to Arabic Native Speakers: Obstacles and Treatments”, on ...

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“Editing Folkloric Texts” Forum at the BA

The BA Manuscripts Center organizes a forum titled “Editing Folkloric Texts” from 22 to 23 June 2022, in the BACC Lecture Hall. It tackles certain aspects such as Arabic folkloric heritage, its streams and manifestations, the reality of folkloric manuscripts in Arab countries, the importance ...

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Visions of Egyptian Museums in the 21^st Century

The BA Manuscripts Center and the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), in cooperation with the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, organize a seminar titled “Visions of Major Egyptian Museums in the 21 st Century” on Thursday, 26 May 2022, at 12:00 pm, in the ...

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The BA Celebrates the Millennium of Ibn Al-Haytham’s Book of Optics

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina organizes a webinar on Thursday, 8 April 2021, in celebration of the millennium of Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham’s Book of Optics . Having contributed to the invention of the modern-day camera, this seminal book presented the principles of empirical research, and placed ...

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