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The BA Board of Trustees Review the Library's Future Plans

Alexandria— The BOT Annual meeting was held on Sunday, 29 April 2007, chaired by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, to discuss the BA future plans and activities and to review its achievements and successes. The BOT comprises of 24 individual members, in addition to five ex officio members, namely: Ahmed ...

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The BA Signs a Cooperation Agreement with the National Library of Serbia

Alexandria — The BA will celebrate signing a cooperation agreement with the National Library of Serbia on Sunday, 6 May 2007. Mr. Sreten Ugricic, Director of the National Library of Serbia will sign the agreement for the Serbian side. Mr. Sreten Ugricic and his accompanying delegation will ...

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The First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing: Using Universal Networking Language (UNL)

Alexandria— During the period from 4 to 7 May 2007, Bibliotheca Alexandrina will host the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing: Using Universal Networking Language (UNL). The workshop comes under the theme “Breaking Down Language Barriers”. The workshop will inform ...

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Baroness Greenfield Gives a Lecture at the BA entitled Selling Science to the Public

Alexandria— the BA will organize on Friday, 27 April, a lecture entitled "Selling Science to the Public", by Baroness Susan Adele Greenfield, a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, member of the House of Lords, and one of the active members of the BA Board of Trustees. Science is increasingly ...

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The Calligraphy Center Wins the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Award (KFAS)

Alexandria— The BA Calligraphy Center was awarded the KFAS prize for the best book translated in Arabic in the field of literature and humanities. The book, Histoire de l’écriture : de l'idéogramme au multimédia, was translated from French, under the supervision of Anne-Marie Christen, as part of ...

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