a lecture on the Educational System in Ireland on 5 January 2010 - the third floating room, Library of Alexandria . She will guide us through her journey when appointed Minister for Education and Science, as this sector caters for almost 1 million students from infant’s right through to higher education and lifelong learning. Almost 100,000 people are employed in schools, universities and Institutes of Technology. As Minister for Education and Science she reformed the system of teacher allocations for children with special educational needs. Also she developed DEIS, a co-ordinated system of supports for pupils in primary and post primary schools who are socially and economically disadvantaged. During her term as Minister she reformed the entry system for those who wish to study medicine

an art form. Mr. Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Mr. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock. Mr. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

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movement in Egypt. The Celebrations will be attended by dancers who participated in the first performance of Mahmoud Reda’s Troupe in August 1969, namely: Farida Fahmy, Neveen Ramz, Hassan Affify, Hanaa El-Shorbagy, Nabil Mabrouk , Hamada Hosam Eldin, El-Gedawy Ramadan, Ihab Hassan, Zakaria Abdel Shafy, Nesreen Bahaa, in addition to Mahmoud Reda who established the Troupe. On Tuesday, 15 December 2009, a presentation entitled “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Mahmoud Reda’s Troupe” will be held at the BACC Great Hall at 9:30 am. On Wednesday, 16 December 2009, a roundtable discussion about folklore in Egypt will take place at the BACC Room B at 10:00 am. A performance featuring Reda Troupe from Egypt and Al Andalus Troupe from Spain is held over the three days at the BACC Great Hall, 8:00 pm. The BA has also published a photo album entitled Dancing is My Life, prepared by Mahmoud Reda and Farida Fahmy.

attributes of that open architecture will be reviewed in the context of its application to information management on the Internet. The Digital Object Architecture will be presented and its role in the handling of institutional as well as personal and/or proprietary information will be discussed along with the way in which organizations can both protect and share information in the future. The Digital Object Architecture is a very general architectural approach to managing information on the net, much as the Internet architecture was a very general approach to interconnecting networks and computers. One specific focus of the architecture is on applications where the information may need to be persist over very long periods of time, where it may be moved many times from site to site and platform to platform over its lifetime, where authentication of the information or the individuals and systems is important, and where terms and conditions on access may exist. The key component of this architecture is the Digital Object, a platform independent data structure that has a unique persistent identifier. The Handle System will be presented and its role as a general purpose resolution mechanism will be discussed. Finally, an open architecture approach to federated repositories and registries will also be discussed along with selected applications of the technology.

potential for developing new nanotechnology including applications as drug carriers, biolables, photovoltics, light emitting diodes and lasers. New synthetic methods have been developed to achieve complete control over the shape of the nanocrystals and to prepare more complex-shaped nanostructures such as a few dots linked together forming nanochains, rods linked together to form tetrapods, coating the nanocrystals with another layer a different material, or even doping the nanocrystal with another different atom. Such control over linking, branching, coating or doping throughout the growth of the nanocrystals allows more potential applications ranging from information processing to artificial photosynthesis. In addition, the possibility of using these nanostructural materials to be used in high performance solar cells and optoelectronic devices will be exposed. Factors affecting the shape of the nanocrystals will be discussed. The new optical properties associated with these new shapes will be revealed.

information and have access to cultural knowledge in their native languages. UNL is an artificial language attempting to replicate the functions of natural language in human communication. In July 2004, partnership with UNDL was established and an agreement was signed in favor of BA to host the Ibrahim Shihata Arabic-UNL Center (ISAUC). The Center is funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) in honor of the memory of Dr. Ibrahim Shihata, an international jurist and expert on international development and a great promoter of Arabic culture. ISAUC will play the major role in designing and implementing the Arabic component in the development of this language and will act as an active language center for Arabic. A team conducted by UNDL was formed with members from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and qualified linguists from Egyptian universities.

Egyptian architecture, and the absolute pioneer of current theories of sustainable development. The theme of this cycle of the competition is “Identity in Contemporary Egyptian Architecture”.

اللغات من مصرية قديمة، وعربية، وفارسية وتركية وغير ذلك من النقوش التي وردت بالخطوط النبطي، اليوناني، الثمودي، والمسند.

Dr. Hassan Nadir Khairallah, President of the University of Alexandria; Dr. Mohamed Gatwary, Chairman of Alexandria Business Association (ABA); and Wassim Mohie El-Din, Chairman of Egyptian Hotels Association, as the seminar is held under the auspices of the three institutes. It is moderated by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria. “A Journey to the Future” takes place at the BACC Great Hall at 7:00 pm. It is open for public upon Dr. Zewail's request.