As part of the Thinking the Mediterranean series of conferences sponsored by the Ramses2 network, a conference with two speakers on Alexandria: City of Nostalgia was held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 9 July 2008. The first speaker was Egyptian screenwriter and journalist Osama Anwar Okasha. The second was Alexandrian-born Harry Tzalas, the founder and president of the Hellenic Institute for Ancient and Medieval Alexandrian Studies, based in Athens, a scientific institute specializing in marine archeology. The speakers evoked different aspects of Alexandria’s past during the early twentieth century and their memories of the era when they had lived in the city.