News

BoT Annual Meeting and Conference on Inscriptions and Calligraphy

H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, headed the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees that was held on 24 April 2003. A number of major decisions were taken including the annual activity plan for the Library, the ...

Read more

The BA Issues its First Collection of Rare Acquisitions

The BA has recently issued the first collection of rare acquisitions in a book entitled “Selections of Rare Acquisitions of the BA”. Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the BA, wrote the foreword of the book while Dr. Youssef Zeidan, Director of the BA Manuscripts and Rare Books Department prepared ...

Read more

Visit of the Famous Mexican Maestro

Within the framework of cooperation between Egypt and Mexico and due to the cultural importance of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the hearts and minds of the world thinkers, intelligentsias and artists, the famous Mexican Maestro Sergio Cardenas, whose compositions and works have attracted the ...

Read more

BA Organizes the First Children Choir Concert

Under the supervision of Maestro Sherif Mohie ElDin, the BA Arts Center organized and held the first BA Children Choir concert. This concert is considered to be the first in a series of children program, which will include theater shows, novel readings as well as music shows and concerts. The BA ...

Read more

Tarnima “Hymn For the Eternal Light of Spirit”

“Tarnima”, or “Hymn for the eternal light of spirit”, is a photo exhibition by the Italian photographer Rosetta Messori that is on show at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina from 3 to 17 July 2003.. Messori’s exhibition consists of more than 40 photographs, including 20 that are being displayed in Egypt ...

Read more