Within the framework of the Resident Scholar Program which is organized by the manuscripts Center, an affiliate to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a series of lectures will be given by Professor Abdullah Yousif AlGhouneim. Professor AlGhouneim is a leading scholarin the geomorphology of the Arabian Peninsula and and an eminent historian of medieval Arabic Geographicl thought.
The lecture entitled "The Alternation Between Land and Water in Classical Greek and Medieval Arabic Geography" explores the theories made by Greek and Muslim scholars on the phenomenon of the alternation between land and water.