Prizes and Awards

• Dr. Khaled Azab, Director of Calligraphy Center; and Mr. Ahmed Mansour, Head of Ancient Egyptian Language Unit, were awarded the State Incentive Award in Social Sciences for the Bulaq Press publication.
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Fatimid Inscriptions, by Dr. Farag Hussein Farag, published by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina,has been awarded the Best Book Award 2008 at the 16th  session of the Competition organized by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  
  
  
  
  
   
• The Calligraphy Center was awarded the Best Book Prize from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science in the field of Arts, Literature and Humanities, for the translation into Arabic of History of Writing from Ideogram to Multimedia.