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Sharm el Sheikh hosts Franco-Arab music festival next week

Date: 2018-07-12 11:31:27 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:32 - ID:7484944

EL-TOR, Egypt, July 12 (MENA) - The Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm el Sheikh will host on Wednesday the second edition of the Egyptian International Festival for Franco-Arab Music. The festival will kick off at Hollywood Sharm El Sheikh ....

BA Embassies of Knowledge organizes workshop on Hydroponics

Date: 2018-07-11 13:36:15 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:52 - ID:7483381

ALEXANDRIA, July 11 (MENA) - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA)'s Embassies of Knowledge (EoK) will organize a workshop on "Hydroponics" on July 18-19. The workshop will focus on scientific theories that led to the discovery of Hydroponics. ....

BA starts documentation of NBE's history

Date: 2018-07-11 12:53:01 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:46 - ID:7483553

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 11 (MENA) - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has started cooperating with the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) for documenting the bank's history as one of the most prestigious banking institutions in the history of the Egyptian ....

Culture palace in Sharm El Sheikh to be inaugurated soon

Date: 2018-07-08 21:29:18 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:86 - ID:7479571

SHARM EL SHEIKH, July 8 (MENA) - South Sinai Governor Khaled Fouda held a coordination meeting Sunday to review the final preparations for Sharm El Sheikh culture palace's inauguration. The governorate is planning an international inauguration ....

Bibliotheca Alexandrina launches website for learning hieroglyphs

Date: 2018-07-05 12:36:18 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:39 - ID:7474583

ALEXANDRIA, July 5 (MENA) - The Writing and Scripts Center at Bibliotheca Alexandrina launched the "Hieroglyphs Step by Step" website in cooperation with the Developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The website is the first ....

World Heritage Committee lists 19 places as heritage sites

Date: 2018-07-04 11:43:50 GMT - France - Culture and Art - SN:36 - ID:7472872

PARIS/MANAMA, July 4 (MENA) - The World Heritage Committee, that wound up meetings in the Bahraini capital on Wednesday, inscribed 19 sites on the World Heritage List. The new places include 13 cultural sites, three natural and two mixed sites, ....

Merry Widow operatta in Arabic at Cairo Opera House

Date: 2018-07-04 08:23:27 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:11 - ID:7472472

CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - The Cairo Opera House will display in Arabic the famous operatta "The Merry Widow" of Austro-Hungarian composer and conductor Franz Lehár. The operatta will be displayed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Lehar wrote some ....

BA to host seminar on access to information for persons with print disabilities

Date: 2018-07-02 10:11:19 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:28 - ID:7469129

ALEXANDRIA, July 2 (MENA) - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will organize a seminar on Tuesday to probe the current situation of the print disabled. The seminar will bring together stakeholders, ....

Cairo Opera House organizes 58 concerts in Cairo, Alex., Damanhur in July

Date: 2018-06-30 16:27:42 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:47 - ID:7467106

CAIRO, June 30 (MENA) – The Cairo Opera House, headed by Magdy Saber, has completed preparations for summer festivals to be held in Cairo, Alexandria, and Damanhur in July. The festivals will include organizing 58 concerts in the three ....

Makkah governor opens 12th edition of Souk Okaz

Date: 2018-06-28 08:37:29 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Culture and Art - SN:18 - ID:7463594

TAIF, Saudi Arabia, June 28 (MENA) - Governor of Makkah Region Prince Khalid Al-Faisal Bin Abdulaziz, inaugurated Wednesday night the 12th edition of Souk Okaz that is held under the patronage of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The event ....