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The Princess Waits in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 27 June 2012. Participants will read The Princess Waits by Salah Abd Al-Sabur. The session starts at 16:00 pm in the Reading Area (B1 level). Participants should register their names at the General ...

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Eratosthenes 2012

The BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) will hold its annual Eratosthenes Festivity on 21 June 2012. Eratosthenes Festivity has become an annual tradition that takes place every year on 21 June at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the city of Aswan. It is designed for preparatory school students, and ...

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Institut du Monde Arabe Book Collection Online

In partnership with the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the BA digitized the Institute’s collection of books and made them available for the public online . The project provides a digital library of around 1700 books in different fields to preserve this very rich collection to the future ...

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Serageldin Gives Keynote Speech at the Library of Congress on Video

On the occasion of 150 th anniversary of the birth of Jurji Zaidan, the Library of Congress and the Zaidan Foundation held an international conference entitled “Jurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature” in which Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of ...

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Hieroglyphics and Calligraphy Summer Courses for Children and Young People

The BA Calligraphy Center holds Hieroglyphics and Arabic Calligraphy educational courses for children and young people aged between 9 to 16 during the summer vacation, starting from 18 June until 7 September 2012. The courses offer interactive activities which introduce history and antiquities ...

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