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The BA Honors Pioneers of Calligraphy and Inscriptions in the Arab World

The BA Calligraphy Center organizes a Ceremony on Sunday, 10 October 2010 entitled “Ahmed Pasha Kamal and Pioneers of Calligraphy and Inscriptions in the Arab World”, with the participation of established Arab scientists and specialists. The date of the Ceremony coincides with the date of ...

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Serageldin Chairs STS Plenary on Food, Nutrition and Population

As one of the forty founding members of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, was invited on 4 October 2010 to speak at the STS Annual Meeting, which is held on the first Sunday of October every year in Kyoto, Japan. This ...

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La Guerre de Troie N’Aura pas Lieu in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in French on Monday, 4 October 2010. Participants will read La Guerre de Troie N’aura Pas Lieu (Tiger at the Gates) by Jean Giraudoux. The play revolves around the impending war that threatens Troy after Prince Paris kidnaps Helen, ...

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Selected Poems by Nizar Qabbani

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly Poetry Reading in Arabic on Tuesday, 5 October 2010. Participants will read selected poems by Nizar Qabbani. The session starts at 17:00 hrs. at the BA Arts and Multimedia Library. Participants should register their names at the General ...

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Cartography in Cairo Salon

The weekly Cairo Salon TV Show, presented by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, devotes two episodes on “Maps”. The first part will be aired on Channel One on Friday, 1 October 2010, at 8:30 pm. Serageldin hosts Dr. Fathy Abu-Rady, Professor of Natural Geography and ...

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