The BA Celebrates the Launch of a New Book on Ibn Khaldun and the Mediterranean During the Fourteenth Century
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Alexandria—
As part of the BA's celebration marking its fifth anniversary, the BA will hold a festivity on Thursday, 12 July 2007, in cooperation with Fundacion El Legado Andalusi in Spain, National Council for Culture, Arts, and Heritage in Qatar, and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) based in Tunes, on the occasion of the launch of the book entitled “Ibn Khaldun: the Mediterranean in the 14 Century: the Rise and Fall of Empires”.
The book is a series of historic studies, a journey through time and space, especially during the fourteenth century, reviewing the most important political events and state of affairs at the time of Ibn Khaldun, as well as the political, social, and economic turbulences in the Mediterranean which shaped our modern age.
Dr. Khaled Azab, Director of the Media Department, stated that the cooperation between the BA, the (ALECSO), and the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Heritage in Qatar to issue the Arabic translation of this valuable book is only an inception of the ongoing fruitful cooperation between the three organizations. He added that the cooperation between the ALECSO and the Fundacion El Legado Andalusi in Spain in celebrating Ibn Khaldun proves the continuous mutual exchange between Spain and the Arabs.