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Competition for Developing Alexandria

Alexandria, 6 February 2005— The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), in collaboration with the Alexandria Governorate and the Alexandria Development Center, is organizing a competition to help the city of Alexandria regain its status as one of the most important historical and contemporary Mediterranean ...

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Nadine Gordimer visits the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria, 3 February 2005— The morning of 3 February 2005 witnessed the visit of Nadine Gordimer, Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA). Ms. Gordimer is the South African novelist and short-story writer whose works deal with the moral and psychological ...

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The Challenge of the Cravat Exhibition

Alexandria, 2 February 2005— The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), in collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Croatian Embassy in Cairo, and Academia Cravatica in Zagreb, Croatia, is hosting an exhibition entitled The Challenge of the Cravat from 8 to 22 February 2005. The ...

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The BA Arts Center’s February Program

Alexandria, 2 February 2005— The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arts Center presents this month, a wide array of performances. Among these performances is the play, Al Setara by the great writer Youssef Idris, directed by Thea Dumsch. The play, staged from 5-7 February, is organized in collaboration ...

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information Literacy Workshop

Alexandria, 31 January 2005— In cooperation with the National NGOs Center for Population and Development (NCPD) and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Trust Fund, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is organizing an Information Literacy Workshop for Information Officers in Rural and ...

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