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The BA Launches a Program for Teaching Hieroglyphs to Fourth Grade Teachers

The BA Writing and Scripts Center, in association with the Directorate of Education in Alexandria, organized a series of hieroglyphics courses to fourth grade teachers. The courses are aligned with Egypt Vision 2030, with regard to pre-university education, and aim to provide social studies ...

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The BA Organizes a Webinar on the "Constraints of Translating Ancient Egyptian Literature"

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a webinar entitled “The Constraints of Translating Ancient Egyptian Literature” on Tuesday, 16 March 2021, at 3:00 pm. It will be delivered by Dr. Hany Rashwan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. The webinar will be ...

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The BA Organizes a Webinar on “Mamluk Inscriptions in Syria”

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a webinar entitled “Mamluk Inscriptions in Syria” on Sunday, 24 January 2021, at 2:00 pm, marking one year since the publication of the book Arabic Calligraphy Diwan in Syria: Inscriptions of Mamluk Buildings . The lecture will be delivered by the book’s ...

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The BA Publishes the Encyclopedic Book Khodeir Al-Portsaidy… An Egyptian School of Arabic Calligraphy

The BA Writing and Scripts Center published an encyclopedic book on Mosaad Khodeir Al-Portsaidy, the international Artist and Leader of the Calligraphers’ Union of Egypt. In the book’s foreword, Dr. Moustafa Elfeki, Director of the BA, highlighted Khodeir Al-Portsaidy’s role in developing the ...

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Hieroglyphs Course at the BA

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a Hieroglyphs course, delivered by Dr. Ahmed Hamdy Abdel Moneim, Assistant Professor of the History and Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East. The course comes as part of the Writing and Scripts Center program of teaching ancient writing and scripts, ...

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