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“Humanism in Islam” Symposium at the BA

Alexandria— The BA, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Alexandria, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany are organizing an International Symposium from 6 to 8 April 2009, entitled “Humanism in Islam: An Intercultural Discourse”. The Symposium ...

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El-Nas ely fel Talet in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 25 March 2009. Participants will read El-Nas ely fel Talet (The People on the Third Floor) by Ossama Anwar Okasha. The play is set in an old building overlooking Ramses street, a main street in ...

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Lecture about To Kill a Mockingbird at the BA

Alexandria— Dr. Nazek Fahmy, Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, will give a Lecture around the novel To Kill a Mockingbird , by American Author Harper Lee, at the BA on Wednesday, 25 March 2009. This Lecture is part of the activities of The Big Read ...

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“Shaping Research Universities in the Nile Basin Area” Workshop at the BA

Alexandria— The BA is hosting a Workshop for the Nile Basin Research Program, University of Bergen, Norway, entitled “Shaping Research Universities in the Nile Basin Area” from 23 to 26 March 2009. The Nile Basin Research Program (NBRP) is a strategic, multidisciplinary program for research and ...

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Donating a Rare Ottoman Map to the BA

Alexandria— Sheikh Hassan bin Muhammed bin Ali Al-Thani, Vice Chairman of the Qatar Museums Authority Board of Trustees, donated to the BA a rare Ottoman map of Pilgrimage route from Istanbul to Mecca. Dr. Khaled Azab, Director of BA Media Department, stated that it is one of the oldest ...

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