Tag: Alexandria
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Alexandria: locals adapt to floods as coastal waters inch closer
Gaber has managed the Latino cafe in Alexandria for six years, during which time the business has had to adapt to increasingly dramatic winter storms. With the storms come the floods, crashing waves engulfing large chunks of the many cafes nestled on the coastline. “There was another wall here before the flooding, but the steel…
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The Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
Not only had the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities paid attention to afford the opportunity to excavations in Egypt by foreign missions specialized in underwater and marine archaeology and collaborated in their scientific and archaeological work, but also founded the Department of Underwater Antiquities in Alexandria in 1996 to be the specialized annex of the Ministry…
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“The Decoration of the Temple of Repit in Athribis in Upper Egypt”
“The Decoration of the Temple of Repit in Athribis in Upper Egypt” By: Professor Christian Leitz, Director of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), University of Tübingen, Germany Tuesday, 4 October 2016; 4:00‒6:00 pm Bibliotheca Alexandrina Main Entrance, Auditorium. Lecture: Open to the Public, The lecture will be in English Abstract This lecture represent the temple…
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New governors for Cairo, Alexandria appointed during reshuffle
Maj Gen Ahmed Taymour has been standing in for the Cairo governor for the past six months, as the previous governor, Galal Al-Saeed, was appointed as minister of transportation. Former minister of transportation Atef Abdel Hamid was appointed as the new governor of the Cairo governorate. Maj Gen Ahmed Al-Hayatmi, governor of Suez, was dismissed…