Egypt
globalpost (Theodore May)
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- Egypt Library Czar Calls For New Archives Law
Ahram Online In an interview this week with Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency, Zein Abdel-Hadi, recently appointed head of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, laid out an ambitious plan to revamp Egypt’s National Library, restructure...
- Glorious Past And Future For Alexandria
Egypt Then and Now (Ben Morales-Correa) Ben has updated his blog with a story being carried by CNN Traveller. Here's a sample. Modern Alexandria sits on top of two great civilizations. A battle to reclaim its past and to build according to Alexandria’s...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Development Of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.strategiy.com/realestatenew.asp?id=20060521110422 Plans for development of the waterfront area around the Alexandria library have been announced: "Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E., a subsidiary of the UAE-based Emaar Properties and Artoc Group...
- Alexandria Library Exhibition
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=729202005 "An exhibition on the Ancient Library of Egypt together with its modern equivalent has opened at the City Art Centre. The exhibition, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, runs until September 11 and looks at...
Egypt
A library with great expectations
globalpost (Theodore May)
It’s a collision of history and culture, where the sea crashes into the coast and Egypt’s storied past passes the baton on to its future. It’s a partnership of symbolism and functionality, a rare melting pot for Egypt’s stratified social structure.
Welcome to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, known in English as the Library of Alexandria, a throwback to the ancient library that stood, experts say, only a couple of hundred yards from the library’s modern incarnation.
The ancient library was among the most advanced centers of learning in the world. Mathematicians and philosophers like Eratosthenes and Euclid studied there while others made astronomic and biological discoveries.
But the building faced a slow demise, beginning with the 48 B.C. Alexandrian War and ending in the third century.
“The ancient Library of Alexandria defined libraries differently,” said chief librarian Sohair Wastawy. “The ancient library embodied learning: plays, poetry, writing.”
But seven years after its founding, the modern Library of Alexandra is struggling to find such a purpose for itself — to balance its role as a cultural center and a repository of written knowledge.
See the above page for the full two-page story
- Egypt Library Czar Calls For New Archives Law
Ahram Online In an interview this week with Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency, Zein Abdel-Hadi, recently appointed head of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, laid out an ambitious plan to revamp Egypt’s National Library, restructure...
- Glorious Past And Future For Alexandria
Egypt Then and Now (Ben Morales-Correa) Ben has updated his blog with a story being carried by CNN Traveller. Here's a sample. Modern Alexandria sits on top of two great civilizations. A battle to reclaim its past and to build according to Alexandria’s...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Development Of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.strategiy.com/realestatenew.asp?id=20060521110422 Plans for development of the waterfront area around the Alexandria library have been announced: "Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E., a subsidiary of the UAE-based Emaar Properties and Artoc Group...
- Alexandria Library Exhibition
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=729202005 "An exhibition on the Ancient Library of Egypt together with its modern equivalent has opened at the City Art Centre. The exhibition, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, runs until September 11 and looks at...