The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is an ambitious project with a vast cornucopia of programs and resources. It was founded as a library with space for 8 million books, but it also functions as an ...

The daughter of the late writer Naguib Mahfouz, Umm Kulthum Mahfouz, has donated his library to Bibliotheca Alexandrina in order to make it readily available to the visitors, researchers, and scholars ...

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a must destination for book lovers on a visit to Egypt. Erected on a magnificent site alongside Alexandria's ancient harbor, the library is home to 2 million books and ...

UNESCO quotes Egyptian authorities on its website (www.unesco.org/webworld) as saying "the new Library of Alexandria is likely to open in the spring of 2001." The new ...

This was supposed to be a big week in the library world. The rebuilt great library of Alexandria, Egypt -- a $200 million facility that will house as many as 8 million books -- was scheduled to be ...

Presidents and royalty gathered Wednesday to help Egypt inaugurate the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a modern version of the famous ancient library known for a freedom of thought and expression lacking in ...

Photo shows a large ball-like structure at the external yard of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, on Feb. 8, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua) Photo shows an interior view of the Bibliotheca ...

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is to reopen its doors in August, following the Eid Al-Adha holidays, to receive a limited number of postgraduate researchers only. In a Sunday statement, the library vowed ...

Today Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina library announced plans to build an HPC platform using Huawei technologies. The HPC cluster will be deployed for specialized applications that require large-scale ...

There’s nothing a bookworm likes more than a reading holiday; and what could be better than a holiday read? Surely only a holiday library. Many of the most beautiful in the world are open to the ...