The BA Issues A Catalogue on the Egyptian Shura Council
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Alexandria—
Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of Library of Alexandria, stated that the BA holds a copy of rare documents of the Shura Council and People’s Assembly, within the framework of the digital project ‘Memory of Modern Egypt’, which the BA is going to launch on the Internet. The Project digitizes the history of modern Egypt and allows researchers to access all political, historical, social and artistic events in Egypt from the era of Muhammad Ali to date.
Dr. Serageldin also pointed out that the BA has documented the history of this vast parliamentary institution, under the supervision of the late Egyptian Historian Yunnan Labib Rizk.
Dr. Khaled Azab, Head of BA Media Department, stated that the BA has prepared a special catalogue on the Shura Council, in cooperation with the Shura Council Information Center, and under the supervision of Mr. Safwat El-Sherif, Secretary General of the Council. The catalogue contains all the information related to the Council, its foundation and formation, headquarters and history, organizational structure, jurisdiction, the Council’s relationship with other governmental bodies, partisan life in Egypt, the relationship between the Shura Council and People’s Assembly, and finally the Council’s achievements.