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The BA Releases Letters to the Dead in Ancient Egypt: A Comparative Study between the Past and Present

The BA Writing and Scripts Center has released a new book entitled Letters to the Dead in Ancient Egypt: A Comparative Study between the Past and Present , written by Dr. Hesham Ellissy, Head of the Central Administration for Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo and Giza. The book’s publication coincided ...

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“The Reading and Publishing of Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs” Workshop at the BA

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a workshop entitled “The Reading and Publishing of Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs”, in cooperation with the Institut français d'archéologie Orientale (IFAO) on 17 and 18 April 2019.  The workshop is delivered by Dr. Lorenzo Medini and Dr. Ali Abdel ...

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The BA Publishes a Book entitled Arabic Calligraphy Diwan in Syria

The BA Writing and Scripts Center published a new book entitled Arabic Calligraphy Diwan in Syria , which is originally a dissertation written by Dr. Farag El-Husseiny. The publication comes as part of the BA role in safeguarding culture and heritage, especially at a time when several ...

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The BA Organizes a Lecture on “The Aesthetics of the Arabic Language in the Texts of Islamic Papyrus”

The Writing and Scripts Center, affiliated to the Academic Sector at the BA, organizes a lecture entitled “The Aesthetics of the Arabic Language in the Texts of Islamic Papyrus,” as part of the World Arabic Language Day celebration. It is delivered by Dr. Mohammed Abdel Latif, former Assistant ...

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The BA Takes Part in the Opening of the 10^th Cairo International Calligraphy Forum

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina takes part in the opening of the 10 th Cairo International Calligraphy Forum, organized by the Cultural Development Fund of the Visual Arts Sector at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, at the Palace of Arts (Egypt’s Opera House), under the patronage of Dr. Ahmed Fouad ...

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