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Serageldin Co-selects Outstanding Peacemakers

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, joins the International Jury of the Chirac Foundation to select this year’s winners of the Prize for Conflict Prevention: individuals or institutions that have taken exemplary and urgent action towards prevention of clash in areas of ...

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New BA Opening Hours

As of October 2012, the BA will be open to public Saturday to Thursday, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. ...

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Translator’s Day at the BA

In collaboration with Egypt’s National Centre for Translation (NCT), the BA celebrates the “Translator’s Day”, a new annual event to mark the efforts of Egyptian translators who bridge language gaps and act as ambassadors of cultures and civilizations. The event will take place on Monday, 15 ...

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Launching the Arabic Translation of Reading the Maya Glyphs

The BA Calligraphy Center, in cooperation with the Embassy of Mexico in Cairo, holds a Book Launch of the Arabic translation of Reading the Maya Glyphs , which is originally written in English, on Thursday, 20 September 2012. The book Author Michael D. Co and Photographer Mark Van Stone succeeded ...

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Restoring the Third Collection of the House of Islamic Antiquities in Kuwait

As part of the continuous cooperation between the BA and the House of Islamic Antiquities (Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyah) in Kuwait, the BA Manuscript Center Restoration Laboratory has recently completed the restoration of the third book collection of the House of Islamic Antiquities. The collection ...

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