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The BA Hosts the Launch of UNEP 2010

Alexandria— Under the auspices of Engineer Maged George, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, and General Adel Labib, Governor of Alexandria, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank Public Information Center (PIC)- the BA Depository Library, organize the opening ...

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Alexandria and Other Centers of Thought in Ancient Egypt Conference at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in cooperation with University College London, UK and Cairo University, Egypt, organizes a Conference entitled “Alexandria and Other Centers of Thought in Ancient Egypt” from 10 to 12 December 2009. The Conference aims to shed light ...

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A Donation of Half Million Books from France to the BA

Alexandria— As part of the Mediterranean cooperation between the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the BA receives a gift of half million French books from France. These books tackle a wide range of subjects including science, history, geography and ...

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Serageldin at Harvard University

Alexandria— As Chair of the Steering Committee of the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis (GERPA), created by the Center for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR) and the World Bank in 2005, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, attended GERPA's Steering ...

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The Paper Voyage Exhibition at the BA

Alexandria— The BA Antiquities Museum, in collaboration with the Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario (Central Institue for the Restoration and Conservation of Archives and Library Heritage), organizes an exhibition entitled “The Paper Voyage” ...

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