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Call for Hassan Fathi Award for Architecture 2011

The BA Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center, in collaboration with the Architecture Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture, announces the third round of Hassan Fathi Award for Architectural 2011, in an aim to promote contemporary Egyptian architecture, and to honor Egyptian ...

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Joseph Stiglitz: Transformation is Difficult, and Takes a Long Time

The BA hosted on Thursday, 28 July 2011, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economy, Columbia University, who gave a lecture entitled “Egypt in a Changing World”. Stiglitz said that the transformations taking place in Egypt and other Arab countries within the “Arab ...

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Memorandum of Understanding in the field of Digital Documentation of Heritage

The BA Affiliated Center of Documentation of the Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) in Cairo has signed on 19 July a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunication in Germany in the field of documentation of heritage using multimedia tools. The MoU was ...

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Serageldin Lectures on Social Justice in the Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library gave the Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 23 July 2011. Entitled “The Making of Social Justice”, the lecture was attended by 1200 person, including Nelson Mandela’s wife, as well as thousands who watched it online including Mandela himself. In ...

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TEDxAlexandriaU at the BA

The BA Dialogue Forum and International School of Information Science (ISIS) host on Saturday, 30 July 2011, the first TEDx event in Alexandria, TEDxAlexandriaU. TED started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from the three worlds of technology, entertainment and design, creating ...

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