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Launching the World AIDS Day Campaign 2009

Alexandria— The World Bank Public Information Center (PIC)- the BA Depository Library, and the Egyptian Aids Society, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Health, organize a public press conference on Thursday, 29 October 2009, to brainstorm and set an action plan for the World AIDS Day, ...

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Serageldin Gives keynote Speech on the Dialogue of Civilization

Alexandria— As one of twelve internationally renowned scholars and policy makers making up the board members of the Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation (UNDL), Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, attended the 9th Board Meeting convened at the Arab Fund For ...

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The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) hosts the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), under the title “From Alexandria to Al-Iskandariya: Astronomy and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, from 26 to 31 October 2009. In an ...

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Questi Fantasmi in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 28 October 2009. Participants will read Questi Fantasmi (The Ghosts) by Eduardo di Filippo. Written in 1946, the play is set in a 17th century deserted palace in Napoli where ghosts are ...

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Hassan Fathy Symposium at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex Med), in collaboration with the Architecture Committee of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Culture, organizes the Hassan Fathy Symposium on Wednesday, 28 October 2009. Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of ...

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