Egypt
- Alexandria The Crossroads
Saudi Aramco World (Edward Lewis) With photographs. Visitors to Alexandria are usually surprised by two features: the extent to which the city contributed to and shaped the Mediterranean world, and the complete lack of physical evidence that demonstrates...
- Tourism: Alexandria's Efforts To Lure Visitors
Earth Times Alexandria, Egypt - Just mention Alexandria and the name city rekindles the Pharoh era when the city was the location of a lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Library of Alexandria was the biggest at that...
- Travel: Alexandria - Following In The Steps Of Cleopatra
The Telegraph - UK (Diana Preston) A bronze coin in the Alexandria Museum depicts Cleopatra in masterful profile. The most important woman in ancient history, she took the two greatest Romans of her day – Julius Caesar and Mark Antony – as lovers....
- Trivia: Agora
Cinematical Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella (Art School Confidential) star in the film, which takes place in Ancient Egypt. More specifically, Weisz will play the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, in Roman Egypt during the fourth century. "Trapped...
- Partnership Agreement Between Isesco Organization, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Egypt State Information Service Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) decided signing a partnership agreement with Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), by which the BA will be considered a deposition library for all the ISESCO's...
Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt: City of the Imagination
Huffington Post (Ralph White)
Alexandria, Egypt is a city that appeals powerfully to imagination. It was here that the Egyptian Revolution was ignited by the brutal murder of blogger Khaled Said, and the city continues to be a major focal center of political activism. But Alexandria is also the city of Cleopatra, and of the ancient Library, reborn today as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It was the home of the philosopher and mathematician Hypatia, beautifully brought to life by Rachel Weisz in the recent film Agora. And Lawrence Durrell immortalized the sensuous, mid-20th century incarnation of the city in his classic evocation of the city's exotic and sensuous ambience, The Alexandria Quartet.
Yet for many its place in the world remains indistinct. Most visitors to Egypt tend not to venture north of Cairo to the shores of the Mediterranean where Alexandria is found. Instead they head up the Nile to the pharaonic monuments of Luxor and Aswan, or East to the beaches and diving resorts of Sharm El Sheik. But in Alexandria we have a cultural jewel, one of the most brilliant cities in the history of the world, its Corniche stretched along the blue bay shore, awaiting rediscovery by lovers of history and ancient spirituality.
- Alexandria The Crossroads
Saudi Aramco World (Edward Lewis) With photographs. Visitors to Alexandria are usually surprised by two features: the extent to which the city contributed to and shaped the Mediterranean world, and the complete lack of physical evidence that demonstrates...
- Tourism: Alexandria's Efforts To Lure Visitors
Earth Times Alexandria, Egypt - Just mention Alexandria and the name city rekindles the Pharoh era when the city was the location of a lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Library of Alexandria was the biggest at that...
- Travel: Alexandria - Following In The Steps Of Cleopatra
The Telegraph - UK (Diana Preston) A bronze coin in the Alexandria Museum depicts Cleopatra in masterful profile. The most important woman in ancient history, she took the two greatest Romans of her day – Julius Caesar and Mark Antony – as lovers....
- Trivia: Agora
Cinematical Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella (Art School Confidential) star in the film, which takes place in Ancient Egypt. More specifically, Weisz will play the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, in Roman Egypt during the fourth century. "Trapped...
- Partnership Agreement Between Isesco Organization, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Egypt State Information Service Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) decided signing a partnership agreement with Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), by which the BA will be considered a deposition library for all the ISESCO's...