Alexandria— Ne’am El Baz, pioneer in children's literature and journalist in Akhbar El Yom Newspaper, donated her personal library, and her husband’s library that includes a set of valuable books, Arab cultural journals, volumes, linguistic encyclopedias, dictionaries and a set of the most important international novels....
Alexandria— The BA is organizing the North Africa and Middle East Science Centers Network (NAMES) First General Assembly Meeting, 2-3 November 2008. NAMES aims to promote best practices to support effective communication and to strengthen the position of science centers within the community. The theme of the Assembly ...
Alexandria— The BA receives Ali Osman Taha, the Sudanese Vice President, on Thursday 31 July 2008 accompanied by a high level delegation. The President and his companions will visit the Library in appreciation of its value as a place of enlightenment and culture, not only in Egypt and the region but in the world as ...
Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading session in Arabic on Wednesday, 30 July 2008. Participants will read the Arabic translation of The House of Bernarda Alba by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, an unpleasant and ...
Alexandria— Dr. Abdel Halim Nour El Din, Professor of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, and BA Special Advisor, is delivering a lecture on Wednesday, 30 July 2008, entitled “The Ancient Egyptian Peasant”. The lecture refers to the idiosyncratic nature of the Ancient Egyptian ...