The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has launched a new book series titled "Humanity's Heritage for Youth and Adolescents", as part of the activities of the currently held International Book Fair at the library, which concludes on Wednesday, July 26th.
The series, supervised by Dr. Ahmed Zayed (Director of the Library), presents
Whoever has the chance to visit libraries and places of books and magazines sellers in squares and main streets now will see a dazzling novel invasion, and perhaps will not find a single poetry collection or a single short story collection amidst this abundance of novel publications.
During a field trip, I asked one of the book sellers at
The World Poetry Movement is a coordination of international poetry festivals, poetry projects and poets from more than 170 countries that, through the globalization and realization of poetic actions, seeks to contribute to the construction of a new humanism for the twenty-first century, permanently promoting intercultural dialogue through
nezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received the icons of the World Poetry Movement (WPM), headed by the General Coordinator of the Movement, the Colombian poet Fernando Réndon.
Pedro Ruiz, Hanan Awwad, President Nicolás Maduro, Fernando Rendon, Francis Combes, Nimrod Bena , and Rati Saxena (starting from left)
Despite the English occupation of Egypt lasting about seventy-five years (three-quarters of a century), French culture was the most influential in the aristocratic class in Egypt. Most of its members went to France to obtain their higher degrees from there. For example, we saw literary figures and visual artists like Taha Hussein, Mohamed
