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Football Match Turns into a Tragedy

Teenagers and youngsters with innocent faces and bright eyes have just finished their mid-year exams. Instead of celebrating their results, they were added to martyrs' lists. Others with pale faces and wondering eyes scream silently, for there are no words to describe how they feel. Mothers, ...

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The BA at the Cairo International Book Fair

The BA participated at the forty third round of the Cairo International Book Fair, held in Madinet Nasr (Nasr City), Cairo, from 22 January to 7 February 2012. At its pavilion, the BA displays its most recent publications in different languages and screens documentaries produced by the BA ...

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The Fop Corrected in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 1 January 2012. Participants will read The Fop Corrected by Marivaux. The marquis Rosimond arrives from Paris to marry a naive village girl, Hortense. He thinks that she must be very happy to marry him--being ...

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Daycare Mid-year Program

The BA Daycare holds a mid-year program for children under six years old during the mid-year vacation from Sunday 29 January to Thursday 9 February 2012. The activities vary to include mind games, coloring and drawing, handcrafts and watching cartoons. Special lectures and presentations are also ...

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Launching the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership

The BA, the Wellcome Library and King’s College London Digital Humanities Department have recently launched the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership (WAMCP) with a fund from JISC Islamic Studies Programme and the Wellcome Trust. Based on the Wellcome Library Arabic manuscript ...

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