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Library Director Featured in L.A. Times

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its director, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, were featured in an article in the Los Angeles Times on 19 May 2004, after Dr. Serageldin delivered a lecture on the Library at Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Center. To read the full text of the article, please click the following ...

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Minister of Scientific Research Announces Launch of Sat-1

Dr. Mufid Shehab, Egyptian Minister of High Education and Scientific Research, announced yesterday, that the first Egyptian satellite, “Sat- 1,” will be launched by the end of the current year, to serve peaceful purposes. The Minister spoke at a seminar, entitled “The Future of Scientific Research ...

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"The Forgotten Temple" at French and Egyptian Planetariums

The Planetarium Science Center (PSC) has just embarked upon a bilateral project with the Saint Etienne Planetarium in France to co-produce “The Forgotten Temple,” a documentary film about astronomy in ancient Egypt. The project, proposed by Mr. Ghaouti Hansali, Director of the Saint Etienne ...

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BA to be Represented at World Summit on the Information Society

Dr. Fathi Saleh, Director of the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been invited to participate in the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunisia in November 2005. CULTNAT received ...

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The Curtain, by Youssef Idriss

In cooperation with the International Association for Creation and Training( I-Act), the Arts Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is planning a theatre workshop based on the short story “Al- Setara” (The Curtain). The story was originally written by the late great Egyptian writer Youssif ...

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