The BA Documents the Life of Late President Muhammad Naguib

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Alexandria— The BA is currently documenting the life of late President Muhammad Naguib, the First President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, following the 1952 Egyptian Revolution. This project is part of the digital project ‘Memory of Modern Egypt’, which the BA is going to launch on the Internet

Dr. Khaled Azab, Director of BA Media Department, stated that the project team finished digitizing 746 rare photos of late President Naguib, 155 documents, 607 news titles of his press archive, 12 magazine covers featuring his photo including the “Time” Magazine, in addition to 16 video clips and 16 rare audios for the President.

It is worth mentioning that the “Memory of Modern Egypt” is a definitive digital repository of materials documenting Egypt’s rich modern history, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through photographs, films, stamps, coins, newspapers, magazines, documents, and historic studies that were drafted specifically for the Project. The Memory is a joint endeavor between the BA International School of Information Science (ISIS) in charge of the technical part, and the BA Special Projects Department that is in charge of the scientific content.

It is scheduled to launch the project’s website next month.


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