To Kill a Mockingbird Screened at the BA
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Alexandria—
In the framework of The Big Read Project, the BA will show the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, based on a novel by Harper Lee. The 1962 production is directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham. The movie (129 min.; with Arabic subtitles)will be introduced by Ahmed Abdalla, film club coordinator at the Goethe-Institut, on Wednesday, 25 February 2009, at 7:00 pm in the Auditorium ( Free Entry).
It is worth mentioning that The Big Read Project is a collaborative Global Cultural Initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest and the Institute of Museums and Library Services. It was a result of the National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report in 2004 that stated a great decline in the percentage of Americans reading for pleasure. The Initiative aimed at providing local organizations with a collection of books by eminent American writers and supporting them in holding a number of cultural events on a selected book. The initiative included exchanging reading between Americans and other nations as a global cultural initiative, and thus the project “The Big Read: Egypt/US” emerged. It aims at introducing Egyptian readers with American literature and introducing American readers with Egyptian literature. The Project is implemented by, in addition to the above mentioned American organizations, the US Department of State. The Egyptian partners are the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Egyptian Association for Educational Resources (E-ERA), and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA).
Click here to view the Big Read February Program.