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The BA Organizes a Webinar Titled “Gebel El-Silsila: New Visions on Inscriptions and Modern Discoveries”

As part of the cultural events of the 16th round of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina International Book Fair, the BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a webinar titled “Gebel El-Silsila: New Visions on Inscriptions and Modern Discoveries”. It is delivered by Dr. Mo’men Saad Mohammed, Member of the ...

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The BA Launches a Program for Teaching Hieroglyphs to Fourth Grade Teachers

The BA Writing and Scripts Center, in association with the Directorate of Education in Alexandria, organized a series of hieroglyphics courses to fourth grade teachers. The courses are aligned with Egypt Vision 2030, with regard to pre-university education, and aim to provide social studies ...

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The BA Organizes a Webinar on the "Constraints of Translating Ancient Egyptian Literature"

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a webinar entitled “The Constraints of Translating Ancient Egyptian Literature” on Tuesday, 16 March 2021, at 3:00 pm. It will be delivered by Dr. Hany Rashwan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. The webinar will be ...

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The BA Publishes the Encyclopedic Book Khodeir Al-Portsaidy… An Egyptian School of Arabic Calligraphy

The BA Writing and Scripts Center published an encyclopedic book on Mosaad Khodeir Al-Portsaidy, the international Artist and Leader of the Calligraphers’ Union of Egypt. In the book’s foreword, Dr. Moustafa Elfeki, Director of the BA, highlighted Khodeir Al-Portsaidy’s role in developing the ...

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Hieroglyphs Course at the BA

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a Hieroglyphs course, delivered by Dr. Ahmed Hamdy Abdel Moneim, Assistant Professor of the History and Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East. The course comes as part of the Writing and Scripts Center program of teaching ancient writing and scripts, ...

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