Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina speaking at Stanford on Dec. 2nd

Dr. Ismail Serageldin, the director of the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina, officially inaugurated in 2002, will be delivering two talks at Stanford on Wednesday, Dec. 2nd.

At 2:00 pm: The New Library of Alexandria: A Beacon of Knowledge

[The modern library is an attempt by Egypt and the city of Alexandria to recreate, in spirit if not content, the original Library of Alexandria. The Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt created what was at the time, the world's largest library in the third century BC in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Though historical accounts disagree as to how, why and when, this massive repository of centuries of scholastic work was burned down and lost to the ages.]

At 4:30 pm: For a Better Dialog Between the West and Muslims

The talks will be held at Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford campus, and are free and open to the public. More information, including maps, is available here.

Please respond by November 25 if you would like to attend
sonialee@stanford.edu, 650-736-9538