01/10/2001
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Alexandria
First Lady Suzanne Mubarak welcomed 1200 guests in a simple ceremony that marked the experimental or soft opening of the new library of Alexandria. She delivered awards to the many who have contributed to bringing the library to this stage and to the representatives of the many associations of friends that had come for the occasion.
08/09/2001
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Alexandria
On the eve of the new soft opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ismail Serageldin hosted some 70 of Egypts leading intellectuals in for a dialogue on the future of the Library and what their thoughts were on what it should do for them and for Egypt.
01/09/2001
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Alexandria
The first Lady and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina met with the Egyptian members of the board of trustees to discuss the plans for the soft opening of the Library and the next steps in the librarys development.
07/06/2001
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Aarhus University, Denmark
Ismail Serageldin, selected by Aarhus University as the best lecturer in the world, delivered two lectures at the university today. He spoke in the morning on the Library of Alexandria and in the afternoon on the University of tomorrow. Both lectures were well attended and very well received.
01/06/2001
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Alexandria
Adel Abu-Zahra, secretary general of the Egyptian Association of Friends of the Library of Alexandria (EAFLA), has been honored by the international associations in Geneva as one of the ten most effective leaders of the civil society in the world.
29/05/2001
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Cairo
The first meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) was held in Cairo. The members of the Board were received by the President of Egypt who reaffirmed the support of the Egyptian government to the BA and wished them well on their work.
28/05/2001
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Cairo
At its first meeting held in Cairo on May 28th, the Board of Trustees unanimously endorsed the recommendations of the search committee and selected Ismail Serageldin as the first Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA).
20/05/2001
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Alexandria
Ismail Serageldin told us today that he was delighted to learn that the membership of the Egyptian Association of Friends of the Library of Alexandria (EAFLA) was growing rapidly and that it had already reached over 500 members.
03/05/2001
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Alexandria
First Lady Suzanne Mubarak visited the Bibliotheca Alexandrina today and held a press conference at which she delivered a very important address that laid out the future path of the BA and announced the new governance structures of the BA.
03/05/2001
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Aida Beach, Egypt
A three day event organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) and the Egyptian Association of Friends of the Library of Alexandria (EAFLA) to discuss the role of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in promoting dialogue and tolerance in the years ahead.
30/04/2001
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Cairo
Ismail Serageldin was appointed to the Supreme Council for Culture in Egypt. This august body comprises 22 persons in their individual capacity and a number of eminent ex-officio members.
22/04/2001
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Cairo
It has just been learned that the new Library of Alexandria is to be guided in its actions by a Board of Trustees that is a veritable who's who of eminent personalities. The Board is to be chaired by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, Egypt's First Lady, who has been the driving force for this project for a very long time.
11/04/2001
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Cairo
This story should have been filed last December... but we just learned of all the details ... We have known for many years that Ismail Serageldin is a very avid scuba diver, and a strong supporter of coral reefs and actions to conserve them.
09/04/2001
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Kuwait
A conference to discuss the applications of biotechnology in the arid zones started in Kuwait today. The conference was sponsored by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and included a large number of regional personalities.
06/04/2001
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Alexandria
The legendary Herbie Hancock and the Thelonios Monk Institute Jazz Ambassadors came to the Conference Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina for a Jazz concert. The riffs were spectacular, and the audience filling the 1200 seat auditorium enjoyed every minute of it.
04/04/2001
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Alexandria
Alexandrian activists Dr. Adel AbuZahra, and Mr. Sayed El-Nahas, his wife Mahiba Abdel Salam, Professor Lutfi AbdelWahab, Mrs. Mona El-Nashar and other friends founded the Egyptian Association of the friends of the Library of Alexandria.
04/04/2001
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Alexandria, Egypt
Ismail Serageldin started his tenure as DG of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina with an open meeting with all the staff from the Janitors to the Directors. The meeting lasted for almost three hours, with all the time taken up with questions and answers following the opening 20 minute presentation by the new Director General a.i.
29/03/2001
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Cairo
President Mubarak of Egypt issued a series of decrees today that appointed HE Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak to head the Council of Patrons and the Board of Trustees, and that named a distinguished group of Egyptians and non-Egyptians to the Board of Trustees of the Library complex, a huge cultural complex comprising several institutions...
20/03/2001
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Cairo
Presidential decree 76 for year 2001 was signed today. It spells out how the New Library of Alexandria is to be governed and managed. A high level Council of Patrons, including such luminaries a the President of France and the Queen of Spain, would meet once every three years or so.
12/03/2001
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Cairo
Law No.1 for 2001 was passed by Parliament on the 12th of March and creates a new juridical person attached directly to the Head of State and gives the President the authority to design its supervisory, administrative and financial regulations with enormous latitude to avoid bureaucratization.