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Closing of the Arab Reform Conference at the BA

Alexandria— The Sixth Arab Reform Conference came to a close at the BA on 3 March 2009. The Conference entitled “The Arab World: Present and Future” was attended by more than 600 thinkers, intellectuals and public figures from Egypt and the Arab World. In the morning, four parallel sessions were ...

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ISIS Participates in “For the Love of Egypt” Cultural Program

Alexandria— The BA International School of Information Science (ISIS) is participating in “For the Love of Egypt” cultural program, organized by the Central Library of Cairo University from 1 to12 March 2009. The program sheds some light on the documentation and digitization projects that aim at ...

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Several Cultural Activities at the Alexandria International Book Fair

Alexandria— The seventh edition of the Alexandria International Book Fair, held from 21 February to 4 March 2009, included several cultural activities attended by eminent writers and intellectuals in open discussions with the audience. On 25 February 2009, a seminar was held to discuss the book ...

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The BA Launches an Initiative to Culturally Empower the Blind

Alexandria— In cooperation with Egypt Future Association (EFA), the BA Taha Hussein Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired, is organizing an initiative to empower the blind. The initiative calls upon writers and publishing houses to waive copyrights from books published in Braille form, or ...

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Proceedings of the Second Day of the Arab Reform Conference

Alexandria— The second day of the Arab Reform Conference, held at the BA from 1 to 3 March 2009 under the title “The Arab World: Present and Future”, witnessed a session entitled “The Influence of the Global Financial Crisis on the Arab World”, under the theme “A Changing Arab World in a Changing ...

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