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Visit of the American Ambassador to the BA

H.E. Mr. David Walsh, the American Ambassador to Egypt, visited the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 5 March 2003 to donate three collections of books to the Library. The first collection includes “the American Library” books and is made up of the most important works by the most eminent American ...

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Fire Incident

At 11:15 am on the 2nd of March 2003, a small fire occured in an administration office in the Library of Alexandria. The fire was contained in that office and no damage to the Library or its collection or its arts works in suite and no one was injured. The fire however produced a lot of smoke due ...

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The Finnish Government Donation to the BA

H.E. Mr. Hanomati Fara, the Finnish Ambassador to Egypt and H.E. Mr. Omar El-Hariry, Consul-General of Finland in Egypt visited the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 24 February 2003 to donate the second collection of books to the Library. The donation includes various books on different topics of the ...

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H. H. Pope Shenouda III Delivers a Lecture at the BA

His Holiness Pope Shenouda III Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria paid his first visit to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 23 February 2003. After his tour, H.H. delivered a lecture on Coptic History. In his speech, at the beginning of the seminar, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director ...

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New BA Friends Association in Morocco

A new Friends Association of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was recently established in Morocco. The general meeting for announcing the new Association, which was held at the Faculty of Arts, Rabat, Morocco, was attended by 35 founder members and an executive board was elected. Dr. Abbas Al-Girary, ...

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