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The youth of the world meet in Alexandria to promote environment, peace and culture

On Saturday 11 September 2004, around 500 teenagers from Egypt and the rest of the world gathered at the Library of Alexandria for the Third Global Environmental Youth Convention (GEYC) under the patronage of Mrs. Susan Mubarak. Throughout the five days of the convention, a variety of issues were ...

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New Panels in the Under Water Archeology Exhibition

The Under Water Archeology (UWA) Exhibition represented its first version at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 12 October 2003, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Egypt. As cooperative efforts continued, two new panels were recently ...

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Dr. Mahathir Mohamed Reviews the Process of Human Resources Development in Malasyia

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamed said that the abilities of people to produce in developing societies are probably the same, but differences of culture and the value system affect their ability to deliver the right kind of work with the same quality of products. ...

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IFLA Observes the Revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria

“The Revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria” is the title of the lecture to be delivered by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), to an audience of 5,000 librarians meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 22 to 27 August 2004. The meeting of the International ...

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the El-Chatby Hospital

Much talk has lately been circulating about the El-Chatby Hospital, but unfortunately most of it is untrue. We at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina would like to put matters right, particularly on those points relating to the Library of Alexandria. The claim, heard in some quarters, that the Library of ...

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