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Big Read Opening Ceremony

For the 8th consecutive year, the BA is inaugurating the “Big Read” program, which is a summer program targeting people aged 16 and older. The opening ceremony will be held on Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 1:00 pm at the Small Theater, BA Conference Center. The program is organized under the aegis of The ...

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Big Read 2018

The Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Big Read program is going to be held on Sunday, 10 June 2018, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center (BACC), Small Theater, at 1:00 pm. This year’s program is about short stories entitled The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death by American ...

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2017 Big Read Closing Ceremony

The BA is organizing the 2017 Big Read closing ceremony to be held on Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 3:00 pm, the BACC Small Theater. The BA held the Big Year, for the ninth consecutive year, from June to September in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and ...

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BA Big Read: Competitions about Michael Ende’s novel Momo

As part of its Big Read program, which is for those who are above 16 years old, the BA is organizing several competitions revolving around German writer Michael Ende’s novel Momo . There is an essay writing competition in Arabic, English, and German; a painting competition; and a photography ...

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