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Memorandum of Understanding in the field of Digital Documentation of Heritage

The BA Affiliated Center of Documentation of the Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) in Cairo has signed on 19 July a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunication in Germany in the field of documentation of heritage using multimedia tools. The MoU was ...

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Serageldin Lectures on Social Justice in the Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library gave the Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 23 July 2011. Entitled “The Making of Social Justice”, the lecture was attended by 1200 person, including Nelson Mandela’s wife, as well as thousands who watched it online including Mandela himself. In ...

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TEDxAlexandriaU at the BA

The BA Dialogue Forum and International School of Information Science (ISIS) host on Saturday, 30 July 2011, the first TEDx event in Alexandria, TEDxAlexandriaU. TED started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from the three worlds of technology, entertainment and design, creating ...

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Gharameyat Atwa Abu Matwa in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 27 July 2011. Participants will read  Gharameyat Atwa Abu Matwa  (Atwa with the Jack-Knife) by Alfred Farag.   The session starts at 13:00 hrs. at the BA Arts and Multimedia Library. Participants should register ...

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Nobel Laureate Economist Joseph Stiglitz Gives a Lecture at the BA

The BA hosts on Thursday, 28 July 2011, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economy and Professor of Economy, Columbia University who gives a lecture entitled “Egypt in a Changing World”. Stiglitz was the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2009, he chaired the ...

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