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BA Open to the Public on Hijri New Year

The BA will be open to the public on Sunday, 2 October, and Monday, 3 October 2016 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. ...

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Ambassador Nabila Makram Visits the BA

Ambassador Nabila Makram Abdel Shahid, Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs, visited the BA on Thursday, 22 September 2016. She was welcomed by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the BA, as well as representatives of the PR and Visits Departments. The Ambassador met with Dr. ...

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BA Hosts Digitizing Arabic Text Workshop

In partnership with Yale University, the BA hosted the Digitizing Arabic Text Workshop from 3 to 7 December 2007. Attendees from Yale University were offered training in the digitizing and OCRing of Arabic texts. Provided by the BA Digital Lab experts and the BA ISIS staff, the workshop included ...

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BA Holds Digitization Training Workshop for American University of Beirut

Pursuing its mission in disseminating knowledge and sharing its expertise, the BA hosted a group of five ICT and library information specialists from the American University of Beirut (AUB) for the workshop “Digitization: from Thoughts to Implementation”. The workshop was conducted by the BA ICT ...

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Brill and BA Collaborate in Boosting Arabic Digitization at Leiden

In the framework of celebrating the 400 th anniversary of the Leiden chair of Arabic, Brill has approached the BA to conduct a training workshop on digitizing Arabic text, sponsored by and held at Brill publishing house in Leiden, the Netherlands. The celebration commemorates the establishment of ...

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