“Salah Eissa's Documents” at the BA
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Dr. Ahmed Zayed, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will launch on Tuesday, 24 December 2024, the project of digitizing the documents of the great writer Salah Eissa on the “Memory of Egypt” website. The ceremony will be attended by Eissa's wife, writer Amina Al-Naqqash. The collection includes more than 92,000 pages, featuring investigation files of different cases related to the communist movement, Islamist movements, and other social issues such as the case of Raya and Sakina, collected from the Egyptian National Archives, the Ministry of Justice, and defense bodies over more than forty years.
Following the launch of Eissa's documents on the “Memory of Egypt” website, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina will hold a seminar on the late writer and his distinguished contributions in the fields of historical, political, and cultural studies.
The seminar comes on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the death of writer Salah Issa, who passed away on 25 December 2017 at the age of 78. Eissa spent his life in public work, as he founded and participated in several press publications, occupied important union positions, and authored nearly twenty books on various issues of modern history that are characterized by their simplicity and depth.