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La Guerre de Troie N’Aura pas Lieu in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in French on Monday, 4 October 2010. Participants will read La Guerre de Troie N’aura Pas Lieu (Tiger at the Gates) by Jean Giraudoux. The play revolves around the impending war that threatens Troy after Prince Paris kidnaps Helen, ...

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Selected Poems by Nizar Qabbani

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly Poetry Reading in Arabic on Tuesday, 5 October 2010. Participants will read selected poems by Nizar Qabbani. The session starts at 17:00 hrs. at the BA Arts and Multimedia Library. Participants should register their names at the General ...

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Cartography in Cairo Salon

The weekly Cairo Salon TV Show, presented by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, devotes two episodes on “Maps”. The first part will be aired on Channel One on Friday, 1 October 2010, at 8:30 pm. Serageldin hosts Dr. Fathy Abu-Rady, Professor of Natural Geography and ...

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Helm Al-Mutanabbi in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 29 September 2010. Participants will read Helm Al-Mutanabbi (Al-Mutanabbi’s Dream) by Fouad Dawara. The Play sheds light on the life of the great Arab Poet Al-Mutanabbi, and his dream to unify all Arabs under ...

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Serageldin Presents the BA at the Gothenburg Book Fair

At the Gothenburg Book Fair, which this year focused on Africa, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, gave a lecture on 23 September 2010 presenting the role of the BA in reviving the essence of its ancient counterpart by acting as a modern day centre for scholarship, ...

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