Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Reading for All campaign at the BA
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Alexandria, 17 July 2005—H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, Chair of the Higher Committee of the Reading for All campaign and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria, witnesses a festival celebrating the 15th anniversary of the campaign’s launch at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 17 July 2005.
The festival, “From the Arab El-Mohamadi Library to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: 15 years of enlightenment”, brings to a close a marathon of torch relay across Egypt’s governorates by Egyptian youth from the Arab El-Mohamadi district, where the annual Reading for All project was launched in 1990, to the Library of Alexandria.
Mrs. Mubarak will deliver a speech during the celebration, preceded by an introductory note by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. A cultural entertainment program will be performed by the adult choir, children’s choir and musical groups of the Culture Palaces Authority.
Accompanying Mrs. Mubarak are a number of Egyptian political dignitaries and Higher Committee members of the campaign, including Mr. Muhammad Safwat El Sherif, Speaker of the Shura Council; Mr. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture; Mr. Anas Al Faki, Minister of Information; Dr. Muhammed Al Beltagi, Minister of Youth; Dr. Abdel Rehim Shehata, Minister of State for Local Development; Mr. Abdel Azim Wazir, Governor of Cairo; Mr. Abdel Salam El-Mahgoub, Governor of Alexandria; Mrs. Fayza Abul Naga, Minister of International Cooperation; and Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Telecommunication and Information.