Alex Med is dedicated to revive the city’s pivotal position in the Mediterranean and become a cultural center for the Euro-Mediterranean Region and the Middle East, to spread internationalism and promote a healthy spirit of diversity, pluralism and interaction among civilizations.
We invite you to participate in the blossoming of Alexandria, to learn more about its interaction with other cultures and civilizations of the world, to take part in our programs and activities. Please do join our research team and contribute to our
activities.
Dr. Mohamed Awad, Director
Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem
Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem tells the saga of a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem during the British mandate, and its fate in the diaspora following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
The story is told by two voices: a mother, who was a child in Jerusalem in the ...
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The Cemeteries of Alexandria: The Untold Narratives of a Cosmopolitan City
One of the visible manifestations of Alexandria’s cosmopolitanism is its cemeteries which illustrate the diversity of the city’s different communities. The Cemeteries of Alexandria is a project on Alexandrian cemeteries including three important burial sites: Chatby, El Amoud Cemetery and Alamein.
Alexandria’s Chatby quarter boasts a necropolis dating back to ...
The Cisterns of Alexandria
The cisterns of Alexandria are buildings that have lost their basic function over the course of time due to the development of the water company in the second half of the 19th century. This has led to neglect of both their structure and their historical value. Lately, the remaining cisterns in ...
The Atlas of Alexandria
The main objective of this three stage project by Alex Med’s GIS and Database Unit is to produce a complete and updated map of Alexandria. The last field survey completed by the Municipal Survey Authorities between 1993 and 1995 was on a scale of 5000:1, making it virtually impossible to show ...
The Street Atlas of Downtown Alexandria
أطلس الإسكندرية لوسط المدينة
This atlas, published in November 2007 in Arabic, is the first part of a three stage project to create a complete up-to-date map of Alexandria. It contains 31 detailed maps covering the area between the Eastern Harbor to the north and the railway to the south, and between the Western Harbor ...
The Birth of the Seventh Art in Alexandria
Catalogue
Editors: Mohamed Awad and Sahar HamoudaThis catalogue celebrates the centennial of the birth of the seventh art in Egypt. It boasts an impressive list of firsts in Egypt which all took place in Alexandria: the first screening of a Lumière brothers’ film in the Toussoun Bourse in 1896, the inauguration of ...