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Reading The Earthquake Play at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Arts and Multimedia Library will hold its monthly session for play reading on Wednesday, 30 January 2008. Participants will read a play entitled The Earthquake by Dr. Mostafa Mahmoud. Dr. Mostafa Mahmoud is an Egyptian physician and intellectual, who was born in ...

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The North Africa and Middle East Science Centers Network (NAMES)

Alexandria— The BA will host the North Africa and Middle East Science centers network (NAMES) meetings on 30 and 31 January 2008. NAMES was launched on 30 January 2006 during a meeting initiated and organized by the BA Planetarium Science Center. The purpose of creating NAMES is to foster ...

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The BA Completes the Restoration of Dar al-Kutub Manuscripts in Tanta

Alexandria— The BA will hold a ceremony on Tuesday, 29 January 2008, to celebrate the completion of the restoration of Dar al-Kutub Manuscripts in Tanta and returning them to the Public Authority for Cultural Palaces. Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, Dr. Youssef ...

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The BA Digitizes Manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery

Alexandria— The BA Manuscripts Center completed the digitization of some of the Arabic manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery, as part of Digital Manuscript Library Project, adopted by the Center to make rare manuscripts accessible to researchers and public users on a wide scale and in a ...

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German Orientalist Van Ess at the BA

Alexandria— Dr. Youssef Ziedan, Director of the Manuscript Center and Museum, stated that German Orietalist Josef Van Ess, 74 years, will participate in the Fifth International Manuscript Conference entitled "Lost and Embedded Manuscript Texts (al-Makhtutat al-Mattwiyya)", organized by the ...

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