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“Culture and Peace” Lecture

Within its Distinguished Lectures Series, the BA Center for Democracy and Social Peace Studies (CDSPS) holds on Wednesday, 20 March 2013, a lecture entitled "Culture and Peace" by H.E. Ms Katalin Bogyay, President of General Conference of UNESCO and Ambassador of Hungary to UNESCO. The Lecture ...

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“Alpharabius: The Second Teacher” Lecture

The BA holds on Monday, 18 March 2013, a public lecture entitled “Alpharabius: The Second Teacher” to introduce Alpharabius’ (Al-Farabi) life and works. It is given by Dr. Maher Abd El-Kader, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Previous Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, and ...

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Lecture on The Reception of Hellenistic Knowledge in Classical Islam

Within the Alexandria Project, the BA holds a lecture on Wednesday, 20 March 2013, entitled “From Alexandria to Baghdad: The Reception of Hellenistic Knowledge in Classical Islam” by Professor Emeritus Hinrich Biesterfeldt. With the beginning of the Arab Dynasty of the Abbasids and the foundation ...

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Lecture on the Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria

The BA Special Projects Department, in cooperation with the Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC), organizes a lecture by Dr. Philip Mansel entitled “The Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria: From Mohammed Ali to Farouk” on Thursday 21 ...

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Honoring the Late Semiologist Algirdas J. Greimas

On the occasion of the Month of the Francophone, the Lithuanian Embassy in Cairo, in cooperation with the BA Francophone Library, holds on Wednesday, 20 March 2013, an event in commemoration of the late Lithuanian Semiologists Algirdas J. Greimas entitled “Algirdas J. Greimas in Alexandria (1949- ...

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