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The Collection of the Royal Tropical Institute, the Netherlands, Reaches Alexandria

The BA celebrated, on 3 March 2014, the arrival of the collection of the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands. Dr. Ismail Serageldin; Director of the Library of Alexandria, and Dr. Derk Vermeer; President of the Royal Tropical Institute— Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) in ...

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Serageldin at the Books for Development Conference

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, will give a keynote speech entitled “From Dinosaurs into Birds: The Transformation of Books and the Promotion of Development” in the Books for Development (B4D) Conference , held from 2 to 4 June 2014 at the George Washington University ...

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Seeds: A Contemporary Dance Educational Action to Egypt- Call for Applications

The BA Arts Center in partnership with the British Council, Egypt, are launching SEEDS- a contemporary dance educational action to Egypt, with the support of the Delegation of the European Union to Egypt from April 2014 till January 2015. This project was conceived out of the necessity to support ...

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The BA and Brill Collaborate in Boosting Arabic Digitization

In the framework of celebrating the 400 th anniversary of the Leiden Chair of Arabic, Brill and the BA have recently conducted a training workshop on digitization of Arabic texts in Leiden, the Netherlands. The Workshop brought together participants from Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, ...

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The Third Researchers’ Forum at the Francophone Activities Center

The BA Francophone Activities Center holds on Wednesday, 26 February 2014, the Third Researchers’ Forum entitled “A Comparison Between Si Hamza Boubakeur and Jacques Berque Translation of Surat Al-Ahzab : An Analytical Study of Translation Problems”, also the title of an MA Thesis by Dina ...

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