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The BA Organizes a New Hieroglyphics Course

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a Hieroglyphics course (level one) entitled “Learn Hieroglyphics with Us.” It takes place from Sunday, 14 October to Tuesday, 13 November 2018. The course is presented by Dr. Ahmed Hamdy Abdel Moneim, Lecturer of Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Faculty of ...

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BA Celebrates Distribution of Arabic Calligraphy Awards

The BA announced the winners of the 9 th Arabic Calligraphy Competition for students from Alexandrian schools. The event is held annually between students from the three stages of education (primary, preparatory and secondary), and is supervised by Ministry of Education Directorate in Alexandria. ...

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Center for Calligraphy Studies Participates in The Renewal of the Cultural Discourse International Forum in Cairo

Dr. Essam el-Saeed, Director of the BA Center for Calligraphy Studies, and Dr. Mohamed Hassan, one of the center’s researchers, have participated in The Renewal of the Cultural Discourse Forum with a research paper, titled “Writings and Manuscripts: Gateways to Creative Cultural Industries”. The ...

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From the BA to the British Museum: Ahmed Kamal Pasha’s Dictionary

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina took part in the British Museum’s international exhibition “Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt”, which opened on Thursday, 13 October 2022 in London, in celebration of the bicentenary of the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian language. This participation included a ...

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The BA Releases the First Issue of Scripts Notebooks

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina released the first issue of Scripts Notebooks , titled “The History and Inscriptions of the Nabataeans in the Eastern Nile Delta.” Scripts Notebooks is a publication that aims at encouraging young researchers at different Egyptian universities and research institutions ...

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