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New Urban Communities Development Conference at the BA

Alexandria— The BA is hosting a Conference entitled “New Urban Communities Development: Issues and Priorities" from 28 to 30 March 2009. After thirty years of the Egyptian experiences in new urban communities, the Conference aims to evaluate these experiences with their successes and failures, ...

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Launching the “Egypt Memory Online Shop”

Alexandria— Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, announced the launch of “Egypt Memory Online Shop”, by the BA Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), in cooperation with IBM Egypt. This is one of several websites launched by CULTNAT to archive ...

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The BA Participates in the Earth Hour

Alexandria— The BA is turning off the lights of the main library as well as all unessential lights on Saturday, 28 March 2009 during the Earth Hour from 8:30 to 9:30 pm. Earth Hour is the world’s first global election between Earth and global warming! Switching off your lights is a vote for ...

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“Humanism in Islam” Symposium at the BA

Alexandria— The BA, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Alexandria, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany are organizing an International Symposium from 6 to 8 April 2009, entitled “Humanism in Islam: An Intercultural Discourse”. The Symposium ...

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El-Nas ely fel Talet in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 25 March 2009. Participants will read El-Nas ely fel Talet (The People on the Third Floor) by Ossama Anwar Okasha. The play is set in an old building overlooking Ramses street, a main street in ...

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