Program
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
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| 9:00 AM -
10:30 AM
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Registration and Tour of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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| 10:30 AM -
11:00 AM
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Break
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| Conference Center – Great Hall |
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| 11:00 AM -
12:30 PM
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Opening Session
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| Conference Center – East Hall |
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12.30 PM
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Exhibition Opening – Shodo and Arabic Calligraphy
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| Conference Center – Lectures Hall |
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| 2:00 PM -
3:30 PM
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Plenary Session - Hisham Badr, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
- Rawya Saud Al-Busaidi, Minister of Higher Education, Oman
- Hessa El-Sabbah, President, Council for Arab Business Women, Kuwait
- Jiro Nemoto, Chairman, Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East, Japan
- Koji Omi, Chairman, Science and Technology in Society forum, Japan
Moderated by - Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Raporteur: Heba El Rafei (BA)
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| 4:00 PM -
5:30 PM
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Japan and the Arab Region: Advancing Relations to a Higher Plateau Conference Center – Delegates Hall Discussion Leaders - Farouk Ismail, Head of Education and Scientific Research committee, Shurah Council, Egypt
- Adnan Omran, Secretary General, Arab Provisional Parliament, Syria
- Takaya Suto, Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan
- Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah Al-Zamel, Head of Shura Council, Saudi Arabia
Moderated by
- Masayuki Yamauchi, Professor, Tokyo University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Japan
Raporteur: Arab-Japanese Economic Partnership Conference Center – Lectures Hall
Discussion Leaders - Fouad Shaker, Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks, Lebanon
- Said Selim Marei Al-Shanfari, General Manager, Al-Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company, Oman
- Mikio Sasaki, Chairman, Japan Foreign Trade Council Inc., Japan
- Abdul Moniem Seoudi, Chairman, Seoudi Group, Egypt
- Sadao Umeda, Chairman, Kajima Corporation, Japan
- Samir Radwan, Managing Director, Economic Research Forum, Egypt
Moderated by - M. Shafik Gabr, Chairman, ARTOC Group for Investment and Development, Egypt
Raporteur: Globalization and its Effects on Culture and Society and Education – Phenomena, Perception and Responses Conference Center – Small Theater
Discussion Leaders - Tamotsu Aoki, Commissioner, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
- Yoshiko Ashiwa, Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
- Amal Basha, President, Sisters Arabic Forum for Human Rights, Yemen
- Ahmed El-Sheikh, Director, Arab Center for Western Studies, Egypt
Moderated by - Rawya Saud Al-Busaidi, Minister of Higher Education, Oman
Raporteur: Innovation and New Models of Japan-Arab Cooperation: Water and Other Issues Conference Center – Multipurpose Hall
Discussion Leaders - Yehia Bakkour, Secretary General, Arab Agronomists Union, Syria
- Magdy Madkour, Head of Biotechnology, Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute, Ain Shams University, Egypt
- Koji Omi, Chairman, Science and Technology in Society Forum, Japan
- Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Moderated by - Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Special Advisor to the Cabinet for Science, Technology and Innovation, Japan
Raporteur:
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| Conference Center – Middle Hall |
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8:00 PM
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Cultural Event – Japanese and Egyptian Film
Discussion Leaders - Samir Farid, Film Critique, Egypt
- Yoji Yamada, Filmmaker, Shochiku Co., Ltd., Japan
Moderated by - Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007
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| 9:00 AM -
10:30 AM
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Prospects for the Middle East Peace Process Conference Center – Delegates Hall Discussion Leaders
- Tatsuo Arima, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
- Hagar Eslambouly, Former Ambassador of Egypt to South Africa, Egypt
- Mohamed El-Masry, Senior Researcher, Center of Strategic studies, Jordan University, Jordan
- Hassan Nafaa, Secretary General, Arab Thought Forum, Jordan
- Hisham Youssef, Chief of Cabinet of Arab League Secretary General, League of Arab States
Moderated by - Abdel Salam El Messady, Former Minister of Education, Tunisia
Raporteur: Beyond Oil: A New Era for Arab-Japanese Economic Partnership Conference Center – Lectures Hall
Discussion Leaders
- Amr Assal, President, Industrial Development Sector, Egypt
- Soheir Boukhammass, Managing Director, Boukhammass Group, Bahrain
- Usamah Jamali, Energy Specialist, OAPEC, Kuwait
- Keiichiro Okabe, Chairman, Cosmo Oil Company, Ltd., Japan
- Yoshihiro Shigehisa, Chairman and CEO, JGC Corporation, Japan
Moderated by - Hamza El-Kholy, Chairman and CEO, Hamza El-Kholy Group, Saudi Arabia
Raporteur: Struggling in a Turbulent Wave of History: Life of Individuals as shown in Arab and Japanese Films
Discussion Leaders
- Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Professor of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt
- Mostafa Darwish, Film Critique and former Judge, Egypt
- Mitsuko Sano, Assistant Director of Japan Academic Center, Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, Japan
- Yoji Yamada, Filmmaker, Shochiku Co., Ltd., Japan
Moderated by - Sahar Sobhy Abdul Hakim, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Cairo University, Egypt
Raporteur: The Environment Conference Center – Multipurpose Hall Discussion Leaders
- Najia Kbir Argub, Founder and Former Director, National Institute of Scientific and Techincal Research, Tunisia
- Adel El-Beltagy, Chair, Global Forum for Agricultural Research and Development, Egypt
- Mostafa Kamal Tolba, President, International Center for Environment and Development, Egypt
- Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Former Ambassador in charge of Global Environment Issues, Advisor of the Cabinet, Japan
- Miki Yoshida, Senior Manager, Energy and Environmental Solution Center Total Solution Division, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Moderated by - Mohamed Hassan, Executive Director, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Sudan
Raporteur:
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| 10:30 AM -
11:00 AM
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Break
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12:30 PM
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The Future of the Arab region: Agenda for Modernization and Reform Conference Center – Delegates Hall
Discussion Leaders - Kamal Abdul Latif, Professor Philosophy, Mohamed V University, Morocco
- Kunio Katakura, Acting Chairman, Japan-Middle East Cultural and Economic Exchange Committee, International Friendship Exchange Council (FEC), Japan
- Mervat El-Tellawy, Coordinator, Arabs Economic Summit, Egypt
- Samir El-Sadek, Managing Director, Taba Tourism Development Company, Egypt
- Yuriko Koike, Former Minister of Defense, Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs, Member, House of Representatives, Japan
Moderated by - Walid Abdel Nasser, Ambassador of Egypt to Japan, Egypt
Raporteur: Capacity-Building: Lessons Learnt from Japan Conference Center – Lectures Hall
Discussion Leaders - Helmy Abul-Eish, Head of the Industrial Modernization Center, Egypt
- Hiromichi Fujita, CEO, Toppan Printings Co.,Ltd., Japan
- Iman El-Kaffass, American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Jiro Nemoto, Chairman, Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East, Japan
Moderated by - Taissier Suliman Al-Radawi, Head, State Planning Commission, Syria
Raporteur: Cultural Exchange Towards Peace-Building Conference Center – Small Theater
Discussion Leaders - Aiko Doden, Member of the Executive Board, NHK, Japan
- Hussein Fahmy, Film Actor, Egypt
- Aly Maher, Head of the Peace Institute, Egypt
- Noury Negm Al-Marsomy, Former Under Secretary of Education, Ministry of Culture and Media, Iraq
- Shadia Toukan, Technical office Director, Old City of Jerusalem Revitalization Program, Palestine
Moderated by Raporteur: Medical Cooperation Conference Center – Multipurpose Hall Discussion Leaders - Mohamed Baghdadi, Director, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat University, Morocco
- Elias Baydoun, Professor of Biology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Yehia Halim Zaki, Former Dean of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
- Seiichi Nagatsuka, Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan
- Masayuki Niwa, President, Niwa Clinic, Japan
Moderated by - Madeeha Khattab, Former Dean of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
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| Conference Center – Lectures Hall |
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| 2:30 PM -
4:00 PM
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Reporting Session
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| Conference Center – Small Theater |
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| 4:15 PM -
4:45 PM
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Ikebana Demonstration
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| Conference Center – Small Theater |
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| 4:45 PM -
5:00 PM
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Japanese Traditional Dance
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| Conference Center – Lectures Hall |
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| 5:00 PM -
6:30 PM
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Closing Session and Press Conference
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| Conference Center – Small Theater |
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7:00 PM
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Cultural Event – Egyptian Dance Show (Alexandria Folk Group)
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