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The BA Hosts Wikipedia's Annual Conference in July 2008

Alexandria— The BA will host Wikimania 2008 Conference, the annual conference of Wikimedia Foundation; an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, from 17 to 19 July 2008. Florence Devouard, Wikimedia Foundation ...

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The BA Launches Sky of Alexandria show in Cooperation with the Arab Academy for Science and Technology at the PSC

Alexandria— The BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) will present on Saturday, 29 December 2007 the premiere of Sky of Alexandria ; a planetarium video-panorama show (30 min). Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria and Dr. Gamal El-Din Mokhtar, President of the Arab ...

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Distinguished Arab Critics, Intellectuals, and Poets Participate in Ahmed Shawqi’s Celebration at the BA

Alexandria— The BA organized a three-day celebration on 10 December 2007, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the passing away of Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawqi. Participants include intellectuals, poets, and critics from Egypt and the Arab world, on top of which is Abdul-Aziz Al-Babtain, ...

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Italian and Egyptian Ministers of Transportation Visit the BA

Alexandria— HE Alessandro Bianchi, Italian Minister of Transportation. and his counterpart HE Mohamed Mansour, Egyptian Minister of Transportation will visit the BA on Monday, 10 December 2007, as a major scientific and cultural complex not only in Egypt and the Middle East, but in the entire ...

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The Egyptian Character in a Seminar at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Dialogue Forum held on Saturday, 8 December 2007, a seminar entitled "The Egyptian Character and Folklore". Dr. Ahmed Morsi, Professor of Folkloric Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University; and former President of DarElKotob (The National Library and Archives of Egypt) ...

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