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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious-it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria's Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler's ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian and international scholars in overcoming them. Her critique of the underlying foundational concepts and values behind the Library is of equal importance, a nuanced postcolonial examination of memory, cultural revival, and homecoming. In this, she draws upon a wide array of thinkers: Freud, Derrida, Said, and Bernal, among others. Butler's book will be of great value to museologists, historians, archaeologists, cultural scholars, and heritage professionals.
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BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
Great Library, Alexandria, by Snohetta. In an age dominated by fashion and style the Great Library of Alexandria has been created by exploring function with rigour and humanity. Designers and client have made an evocative and appropriate successor of the great precedent. (Original abstract)
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The great library
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, designed by a group of architects who came together in Los Angeles, is a heroic building that celebrates scholarship, history, Africa and the Mediterranean. The library promises to reinvigorate the city and its culture. The article follows its long gestation, with comments of its director on how he sees its future. (Quotes from original text)
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Noble volume
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, by Snohetta Hamza Consortium, Aga Khan Awards for Architecture winner. The heroic Great Library of Alexandria has astonished the world and the jury welcomed the way the library \"provides a model for bringing together the international community and encouraging cooperation and commitment from society as a whole\". (Quotes from original text)
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Rising Sun
The origins, symbolism and development of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, are detailed. \"The library, meant to be an architectural signature like Australia's Sydney Opera House and Spain's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, opens to the public April 23 [2002]. Though it possesses far fewer books than any other celebrated library--about 500,000 as compared with the 9.6 million books and other printed materials in the Library of Congress--it is drawing worldwide attention, both for its bold architecture and for its proximity to the site of the most famous library of the ancient world...Alexandria boasted the world's first and greatest public library [c. 295 B.C.], a library whose aim was to contain a copy of every book ever written in Greek. One day, or perhaps over centuries--no one knows for sure--the great library and its half million scrolls (the form in which books were written in Greek and Roman times disappeared. Although the old library's fate is still mourned and debated, some discourage comparisons between old and new.\" (Smithsonian) The modern challenges facing Bibliotheca Alexandrina are considered.
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