The Conference booklet comprises all information related to the BioVisionAlexandria2006 starting with the conference’s program and ending with the list of partners, sponsors, supporters and exhibitors. In addition, the booklet includes profiles and short biographies of all attending speakers with a brief description of their presented abstracts.
One of the main objectives of BioVisionAlexandria 2006 was to highlight both the challenges and the successes in delivering better healthcare and nutrition to those most in need – aiming at changing their lives.
This publication aims to present an overview of the BioVisionAlexandria 2006 conference and gives a brief portrayal of the next BioVisionAlexandria 2008 conference.
Prejudice and intolerance always seem to find their fuel in the voices of those who inhabit the dark age of censorship. Faithful to its mission, the BA published four speeches addressed by Dr. Ismail Serageldin on the pivotal subject of freedom, reflecting different moments in the history of the young institution. Written in defense of freedom, the speeches draw a line between freedom of expression and unwanted blasphemy, remembering Gandhi who said “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”.
This little but important book contains speeches addressed to different audiences and at various times by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria. Although each document stands alone as an independent entity, together they constitute an all-encompassing exposition of the values of freedom. They advocate the standpoint that home-grown political, institutional, economic and social reform must eventually come to be. The book contains also the Alexandria Declaration which was co-drafted with some 167 distinguished Arabs and presents the aspirations of Arab reformers and intellectuals.
