ON 5 December, 1939 in this same newspaper, The Egyptian Gazette, an article titled ‘An Egyptian Candidate for the Nobel Prize: Sheikh Tantawy Gohary’ was published. It read: “Sheikh Tantawy Gohary, one of Egypt’s leading thinkers and the first Egyptian … Continued
THE “Memory of the Arab World” is a major project initiated with the target to document the Arabic Cultural Heritage. It started two years ago under the umbrella of the Arab League and the coordination of Egypt’s Centre for Documentation … Continued
Culturama ins an interesting example of how we can employ modern technology in the documentation and dissemination of heritage. It is a nine-screen, 180-degree projection system invented and patented five years ago by the Center for Documentation of Cultural and … Continued
ON the occasion of 400 years since Galileo invented the first man-made telescope that drastically changed the scientific perception of mankind to the universe, the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), together with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) have … Continued
RE’AYA EL-NEMR is a very special Egyptian woman whom I got to meet about two years ago when she came to my office with Hind Moustafa, my assistant for international relations. She heard about the Centre for Documentation of Cultural … Continued
During the month of May, Egypt was hosted as the guest of honour at Torino International Book Fait, Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Torino. That was reflected in having the largest area in the fair for the Egyptian pavilion with … Continued
IN the series of previous articles, we explored the parallels between the two civilizations: the Mesopotamian and the Ancient Egyptian across three millenniums BC. We saw how in the last millennium BC, the ancient world was transformed into a form … Continued
THIS millennium can also be called “The Millennium of Globalisation of the Ancient World” because, as we will see, it fea¬tured the annexation of the different parts of the Ancient world. It started during the Assyrian Empire, especially at the … Continued
WE were talking in the previous two articles about the parallelism of the Mesopotamian and the Pharaonic civilisations during the sec¬ond millennium BC. The main civilisation of Mesopotamia was the Babylonian, from which comes the legendary epic Enuma Elish, which … Continued
AS the previous article showed, the Babylonian ‘civilisation was at its peak in Mesopotamia during the second millennium BC. This was parallel to the Middle and the New Kingdom of the Pharaonic civilisation. The main legend or epic that was … Continued