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Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its play reading, for the first time in French on Wednesday, 7 April 2010. Participants will read Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard (The Game of Love and Chance) by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux. Monsieur Orgon hopes his daughter, Silvia, gets married to Dorante, ...

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New Excavations in Kom El Dekkah Symposium

The BA Calligraphy Center, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities, is organizing a symposium on 8 April 2010, on the new excavations in Kom El Dekkah, Alexandria. These excavations led to the discovery of the Bubastion Temple dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, ...

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The BA Launches the Arabic Version of Mother Goose on the Loose Program

The BA Children’s Library will launch the Arabic version of the award-winning educational program “Mother Goose on the Loose” (MGOL). The mission of MGOL is to engage and educate children, from infancy to threeyearsold, with their parents, caregivers, and the community, through an entertaining and ...

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Ecrire la Méditerranée in a Roundtable Discussion at the BA

On the occasion of the celebration of the French donation of 500,000 books offered by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), the BA, in cooperation with the French Embassy and the French Cultural Center, organizes a roundtable discussion entitled “Ecrire la Méditerranée” on 10 and 11 April ...

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War of Languages at the Dialogue Forum Seminars

The BA Dialogue Forum organizes a seminar on Saturday, 3 April 2010, entitled “War of Languages”. The Seminar host Dr. Ashraf Farrag, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, and  is moderated by Dr. Magdy Agameya, Professor of Comparative Literature (Arabic- Persian). It is worth ...

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