Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Annual ReportJuly 2009-June 2010

WHO WE ARE

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OBJECTIVES

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CONTENTS

Introduction 7 Board of Trustees 11 Advisory Board 30 Meet the Management 49 Consultants & Special Advisors 103

2009/2010

www.bibalex.org Introduction ccording to Presidential Decree No.76 for the year 2001, Article 2, the New Library of Alexandria is governed by a Council of Patrons, a Board of Trustees (BoT), and a Director. The Council of Patrons includes Heads of States, royalty and other dignitaries. TheA BoT, on the other hand, is the decision-making power on the matters of the Library, vested with all the authority to run the affairs of the Library, with over half of its members being eminent non-Egyptians, thereby reinforcing the view that the Library is an Egyptian entity with an international orientation. The Director of the Library, who is appointed by the BoT, is the Chief Executive Office of the Library heading the management team that orchestrates the activities of this growing institution. The hierarchy of the BA management is divided into Heads of Sectors, under which come Directors of Departments, then Heads of Sections and lastly Heads of Units.

Annual Report July 2009-June 2010 7 Financial Statement Board of TrusteesBoard Board of Trustees Chair Suzanne Mubarak

Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, a sociologist born in Menya, Egypt, obtained a BA in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Sociology of Education from the American University in Cairo, in 1977 and 1982, respectively. She is the architect of countless programs, mainly the “Reading for All” national campaign. Her concern for peace as a pre-requisite for sustainable development led her to found the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement (SMWIPM) in 2003. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak is Founder and Chairperson of numerous committees and councils. To name a few: • Egypt’s National Women’s Committee, • Arab Women’s Council, • Association for the Development of Services in the Community of Heliopolis, • Egyptian Society for Childhood and Development, • Egyptian Children’s Literature Center for Documentation, Research and Information, • National History Museum for Children in Egypt: The Suzanne Mubarak Museum for Children, and • Integrated Care Society. She has participated in many international and regional conferences, meetings and roundtable discussions on development, peace, children’s rights, women’s issues, environment, health and education. In appreciation of her unstinting efforts in enhancing the well-being of women and children, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of education and health services, HE Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak has received numerous awards and decorations, nationally and internationally. Being a proponent of a culture of peace, she has recently received the 2009 Peace Award from the World Peace Council. Her numerous awards include, but are not limited to: • The Marisa Bellisario Foundation Award, Rome (2008), • Sheikh Rashid Award for the Humanitarian Personality of 2006, Dubai (2007), • The Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the Greek President, Athens (2007), • East John P. Wallach Peacemaker Award from Seeds of Peace (2006), • Global Women’s Leadership Award at the Global Summit of Women, Cairo (2006), • Rainer Hildebrandt Medal for Human Rights, Berlin (2006), • Arab First Lady Award, Arab League of Nations (2005), • IEARN Award (2004), and • Key of Athens, Athens (2003).

Annual Report July 2009-June 2010 11 Ex-Officio Members Farouk Hosni is one of the leading contemporary abstract painters, and the current Egyptian Minister of Culture. Previously, he was the Cultural Attaché and Director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris (1971–1978), Deputy Director of the Egyptian Academy in Rome (1979–1982) then its Director and the Cultural Counselor at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome (1982–1987) prior to his appointment as the Minister of Culture in 1987. He initiated the transfer of the current Egyptian Museum to create the largest museum in the world; developed and restored Dar El-Kutub; and established the Cultural Development Fund responsible for producing and promoting cultural products. He received an Honorary Doctorate and was awarded the Prize of Culture of Peace from Soka Gakai International University, Japan. Farouk Hosni On 30 July 2007, Egypt nominated Hosni to succeed Koichiro Matsuura as Minister of Culture Director-General of UNESCO and began a campaign to have him elected to the position; however, Bulgaria’s Irina Bokova succeeded. Ex-Officio Members

Ahmed Abul-Gheit is the current Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He obtained a BSc in Commerce from the Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 1964. Over the past 30 years, Ahmed Abul-Gheit has served Egypt in numerous diplomatic capacities, including Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt for Cabinet Affairs; Egypt’s Ambassador to Italy, Macedonia and San Marino; Political Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt; and Political Counselor at the Embassy of Egypt in Moscow. Ahmed Abul-Gheit served as Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1999–2004) and assumed the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in July 2004. Ahmed Abul-Gheit Minister of Foreign Affairs

Annual Report July 2009-June 2010 13 14 WHO WE ARE Minister ofHigherEducation Governor of Alexandria Governor and ScientificResearch Adel Ali Labib Adel Ali Hany Helal and ordersofmerit,including: infrastructure ofBeheiraGovernorate. environmental achievements, which culminated in the plan to innovate the and was the Deputy Head of State Security. He has engineered innumerable (1999–2006) andBeheiraGovernorate the associations. Scientific Researchin Faculty Geology and aPhDinEarthSciences(RockMechanicsEngineering)1982. following positions: Adel Labibreceived numerous national and international honors, awards He spent over 33 yearsof service inthe Ministry of Interior andState Security, Adel Hany Helalisamemberofthefollowingaffiliations: Hany Helalistherecipientofseveralawards: Hany Helal worked as a Professor ofRockMechanicsandEngineering aProfessor workedas Helal Hany Hany HelalassumedthepostofMinister Hany Governor • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Development Center(2005), Grade Germany (2008),and The Middle East(SESAME)(2002). Synchrotron-Light forExperimentalSciencesand Applications inthe UNESCO National Education,HigherEducationandResearch,France(2005). Honor US FederationforMiddleEastPeace Qatar (2007), Environmental (2003), and Honorary Membership, theHeartandCoronary Arteries Disease Society and theExcellenceMedal(2003). Honor Medal of International International SocietyforRockMechanics(ISRM), Token Alexandria and Secretary General,EducationDevelopmentFund,Egypt(2005),and (in cooperationwithUNESCO). The of Labib

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Hind Hanafy, Professor of Pediatrics, is currently President of the University of Alexandria, becoming the first Egyptian female to be appointed for such a post. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, in 1975; and was appointed Lecturer in Pediatrics in 1985. She is interested in Medical Education and has facilitated the workshops of “Basic and Applied Education” in the Faculty of Medicine, (1982–1988); and was assigned as Director of the Medical Education Center, (2003–2006). She was appointed Vice-Dean of the University of Alexandria Medical School, (2003–2006); and Vice-President of the University of Alexandria for Graduate Studies and Research for 3 years, before becoming President of the University of Alexandria in 2009, and consequently President of the Supreme Council of Beirut Arab University. Hind Hanafy Currently, Hind Hanafy is member of the Educational Committee at the President of the National Democratic Party, and member of the Higher Committee for Medical University of Alexandria Specialties headed by the Egyptian Minister of Health and Population. She is a member of several children’s welfare associations, and an active member of the Alexandria Branch of the National Council for Women. She is a member of the boards of trustees of Mubarak City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, and Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. Hind Hanafy is a member of several Euro-Mediterranean networks such as UNIMED and EPUF, and a member of the Senate Committee of the Euro- Mediterranean University (EMUNI). She was elected President of Middle-East

Rectors Conference (CONFREMO) of members of the Agence Universitaire Ex-Officio Members de la Francophonie (AUF) in June 2009.

Annual Report July 2009-June 2010 15 Individual Members University ofGeneva,in1989. of Education;andtheRussian University. Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report of morethan25non-profitinstitutions. executive committees, boards ofdirectors, review boards and boards oftrustees Europaea; of honorary biology, The MolecularBiologyoftheCell California, SanFrancisco.Heisalsonotedasoneoftheoriginalauthors in served asthe Co-Chair of the InterAcademy Council. He isProfessorEmeritus of as cum laude, living cellsdivide. Alberts obtainedan AB inBiochemical Sciences, summa study oftheproteincomplexeswhichenablechromosomereplicationwhen Organization. member of thePolicy Advisory Committee of the World Intellectual Property and the Board of Directors of theEducation Development Fund. Sheis also a for Nile Water, the Board ofDirectors ofthe Social FundforDevelopment, member oftheSupremeCouncilforPlanning,MinisterialCommittee numerous internationalsummits. in manyinternationalcommittees,andheadedtheEgyptiandelegations Cooperation inEgyptandthe becoming Publique Diploma inPublic Administration fromtheInstitutInternationaldel’Administration the a the the Currently, Bruce Alberts serves asEditor-in-Chief of Science Before joiningtheEgyptianCabinet,sheheldnumerousposts: Widely Bruce Alberts currently serves on the editorial boards, advisory boards, Bruce Alberts isaprominentbiochemistnotedparticularlyforhisextensive She is a member of a number of policy-making ministerial committees, and a Throughout In 2004,shewasappointedEgyptianMinisterofInternationalCooperation,after Fayza • • • • • United National United Permanent RepresentativeofEgypttothe Geneva (1987),and Coordinator United Nations,Dr. BoutrosGhali(1992–1996), Deputy (1999–2001), Permanent Political Department Bruce degrees of

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23 Individual Members 24 WHO WE ARE Abd-El-Aziz Hegazy Member asof2007 Member asof2007 Michael Keller Egypt USA serves asChairmanoftheNGOsUnioninEgypt. London, andChairman of anumbercultural forums inEgypt and Jordan.He of theCouncilonLibraryandInformationResources. Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Senior Presidential Fellow He accountant, auditor andmanagement consultant in Egyptandthe Arab World. National of theNationalDigitalLibraryFederationsince2002. Los University. Interest strategic dutyfortheStanfordUniversityPress. Press, he became its publisher, and in April 2000,he was assigned similar Director of New BA economics andfinance. career: is and Memberofthe Advisory Council in anumber of private universities. He committees, andservesonnumerousboards. in 1951. Member

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25 Individual Members 26 WHO WE ARE Member asof2005 Member asof2009 Ghassan Salamé Bruno Racine Lebanon France obtaining severaldistinctionsfrom Ministry to international relations, such asDirector of thePolicyPlanningStaff atthe 1986; andatColumbiaUniversity, New and has been Professor ofInternational Relations at Sciences-Po, Paris, since scholarly journals. European JournalofInternational Affairs, which trainsseniorpublicservants. Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Parisandthe Ecole Nationale d’Administration Normale He is the author of(inter alia) Summit appointed Chairman andSpokesmanoftheOrganizing Committee of the Arab was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, in charge of national heritage and arts. He was and Culture. non-profit in Literature,andaPhDPoliticalSciences,bothfromParisUniversity. studied well asalarge numberofarticles relating to foreignaffairs andcultural policy. in thedigitaleraGoogleetlenouveaumonde;as essay onthefutureofbooks He haswrittentwobooksaboutItaly, Living in Rome the HighCouncilforEducation. think-tank in strategic research. He was also appointed, in 2003, President of Chairman of the Fondation pour La Recherche Stratégique, France’s leading Affairs, relating He wasreappointedfora3-yearperiodin have been published in Politics of Arab Integration and the Foundations of the Arab State Democrats: Politics of Liberalization in the Arab andMuslimWorld ; and Society in the Arab Levan. He is editor of (inter alia) d’empire: ingérences et résistances à l’âge de la mondialisation Ghassan Ghassan In Bruno Racine has published six novels, some of which have won literary prizes. Bruno Racinehaspublishedsixnovels,someofwhichhavewonliteraryprizes. Bruno Bruno RacinejoinedtheFrenchNationalLibraryasPresidentin April 2007. Bruno Racine is a French He He presently sits onthe boards ofnumerous international institutes and Political 2008, was

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27 Individual Members 28 WHO WE ARE Federico Mayor Zaragoza Member asof2010 Spain of poemsandseveralbooksessays. when theGrouppresenteditsfinalreportinIstanbul. Group Chairman ofthe Académie delaPaix. Decade fortheCultureofPeaceandNonviolence,aswellHonorary (Fundación CulturadePaz),whichhecreatedin1999. Federico Mayor is currently President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace a doctorate in Pharmacy He hasheldseveralnotablepositions: In He isMemberoftheHonoraryBoardInternational Coalition forthe Federico MayorZaragozaisaSpanishscholarandpolitician. He obtained In • • • • • • • • • • addition 2005, Undersecretary (1963). Professor Rector, SchoolofPharmacy, UniversityofGranada(1968–1972),and Professor, theComplutense UniversityofMadrid(1973), Advisor totheSpanishPrimeMinister(1977/1978), Member, SpanishCongressofDeputies(1977/1978), Deputy Director-General, UNESCO(1978), Minister ofEducationandScience,SpanishGovernment(1981/1982), Member, EuropeanParliament(1987), Director-General, UNESCO(1987–1999), for the the to Alliance

UN numerous of Biochemistry, Secretary-General

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Advisory Board 30 WHO WE ARE Ahmed Kamal Aboulmagd Ahmed Martti Ahtisaari Finland Egypt Islamic Viewpoint in the fields of constitutional and administrative law; Member of the Royal the of Member law; administrative and constitutional of fields the in lifetime contributiontoworldpeace”. London; and the 2007 UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize for “his conflicts”. several continents andovermorethanthree decades, toresolve international of hisworkaspeacemakerinsometheworld’s mosttroubledareas. Prize forInternationalUnderstandingbytheFulbright Association inrecognition International Youth Foundation. and YouthChildren the Balkan of Global Council the Action and Foundation, the of Chairman Relations; Foreign on Council European the of Co-Chair Interpeace; of Board International the of Chairman the as serves He Kosovo. with theUNonavariety of issuesincluding Namibia, Iraq, Hornof Africa and Initiative where he acts as Board Chairman. Over the past 30 years, he worked efforts topreventcrisisandconflict. Finland, in 1959.Martti Ahtisaari is committed to Advisory Boardin2008. its of Member a becoming before 2007, until Alexandrina Bibliotheca the of Islamic reforms, including: Dialogue Not author ofseveralbooksandarticlesonlegalphilosophy, constitutionallaw, and Assembly, entitled Crossing the Divide: Dialogue among Civilizations Egypt, andformerMinisterofInformation. and MemberoftheNationalCouncilfor Women. Moroccan Academy; Member of the Institute of Islamic Research at Al-Azhar, modern Islamicphilosophy. and Islamic scholar. He is considered to have made significant contributions to Board in2008. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2007, before becoming a Member of its Advisory for his international peace work. He graduated from the University of Oulu, Nobel PeacePrizeLaureate and UnitedNationsdiplomat and mediator, noted Martti a Founding MemberoftheBoard Ahtisaari was Trustees ofthe In 2008, Ahtisaari was awarded an honorary degree by University College, In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his efforts on In December 2000, Martti Ahtisaari was awardedthe J. William Fulbright in Rights Human for Council National the Vice-Presidentformer of is He lawyer practicing a Egypt; University, Cairo at Law of Professor a is He lawyer,constitutional politician Egyptian Kamal an Ahmed is Aboulmagd Ahmed Kamal Aboulmagd was a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees In 2001, he was selected to co-author a document, endorsed by the UN General Upon leaving office, he founded an organization known as Crisis Management Martti OivaKalevi Ahtisaari isformerPresidentofFinland(1994–2000), . Confrontation the promotion ofinternational Bibliotheca Alexandrina and A Contemporary . Heis Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report (2001–2007) beforebecomingaMemberofits Advisory Boardin2008. Bibliotheca Alexandrina the of Trusteesof Board the of Member Founding a at increasing economic prosperity and promoting social equity. He was also aiming action launching to and projects; to response speedy and efficient of for development in Arab, Asian and African countries; to establishing traditions resources mobilizing to himself dedicated he where Development, Economic Director-Generalthe was for he Fund 1981, Kuwait to the 1961 of From Arab 1981–1983. During this period, he Kuwait, chaired of the State Worldthe Bank/IMF of annual Government meetings. the in Finance of Minister former and Water in the 21 development problems. and economic financial, on papers numerous published has and institutions, 1985. CEO of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) since and Chairman as serves currently He Efforts. Development of Arab Dean the and conductedgraduateworkinInternational Affairs atHarvardUniversity. limited to,thefollowing: Advisory Boardin2010. its of Member a becoming before (2004–2009), Alexandrina, Bibliotheca Trustees ofICARDA,Syrian Arab Republic,1994–2000. of Board the of Member and 1995–1999; Washington,in Committee Sector Private CGIAR the Vice-Chairof the as served She 2002. October in created Area Euro-Mediterranean the in Cultures and Peoples between Dialogue the Board, UNDP. She was the Co-President of the High Level Advisory Group States’on Arab for Advisory Bureau Regional the of Member a was She Rabat. in V Mohammed University at Studies Strategic for Centre the at Studies of and think tanks. ofinternationalorganizations oftrustees peace andonanumberofboards and isaworldrenownedspecialistininternationaleconomiclaw. She is an expert on food security, strategic studies and the Mediterranean area, of severalinternationaldevelopmentorganizations. She has written extensively on diverse topics. She is the author of, but not but of, author the is She topics. diverse on extensively written has She Director and Law International of Professor a BenSalah was Assia Alaoui Assia BenSalah Alaoui serves on a variety of committees for Near-Eastern He was Chairman of a Task Force on Multilateral Development Banks; Development Multilateral on Force Taska of Chairman was He on WorldCommission the and boards international many on serves He He is the Founding Director-General of the Kuwait Development Fund, and Abdel-Latif Al-Hamad the of Trustees of Board the of Member a was Alaoui BenSalah Assia Assia BenSalah Alaoui is Ambassador at Large of HM the King of Morocco. • • He isamemberoftheboardseveralhighereducation andresearch Forum andExhibition,RUSI&KingdomofBahrain(2009). Global Security, theFinancialCrisesandFoodSecurity, Bahrain Security for CivilProtection, The Hague,Netherlands(2010),and National Safety & Security: Climate Change and Scarcities, a Challenge Climate Change and Arab Food Security st Century. graduated from Claremont McKenna College, California, He is a trustee and member of the board of directors , 2 nd Kurhaus Conference, Kurhaus Abdel-Latif Al-Hamad Assia BenSalah Alaoui Assia Morocco Kuwait

31 Advisory Board 32 WHO WE ARE Hanan Ashrawi Jacques Attali Palestine France to thePresidentofRepublic,1981–1991. Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He was Special Advisor Virginia. She is a passionate advocate of many human rights and gender issues. obtained a PhD in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of her BA and MA degrees in Literature from the American University of Beirut. She rights anddemocracyawards;honorarydegrees. and Research. Palestinian the was she 1998, to 1996 Education Higher of Minister Authority the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights in Jerusalem. From Legislative Council. Palestinian the to times numerous elected been has She delegation. the of and Member of the Leadership/Guidance Committee and Executive Committee process peace East Middle the to Delegation Palestinian the of Spokesperson Official as served she 1993, to 1991 From 2005. in founded was which Party Alexandrina until 2003, before becoming a Member of its Advisory Board in 2004. of theBoard Trustees oftheInstituteforPalestineStudies. the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She is a Member biographies, andplays. essays, novels, including world, the over all sold copies million six over with United Nationsontherisksofnuclearproliferation. floods in Bangladesh. Jacques Attali then advised the Secretary-General of the other things. among MP3, the invented that technologies new on program major a Eurêka; in 2003.HeisalsoaMemberoftheUniversal Academy ofCultures. Board its Advisory of Member a becoming before (2001/2002) Alexandrina, a columnistfor profit organization assistingmicrofinanceinstitutionsallovertheworld.Heis PlaNet of President and technologies; new in currently CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm based in Paris specializing Politiques andEcoleNationaled’Administration. d’Etudes Institut Mines, des Ecoles Polytechnique, Ecole of graduate a is and Hanan Ashrawi is Founder and Chairperson of the Palestinian Initiative for From 1993 to 1995, Hanan Ashrawi headed the Preparatory Committee of Committee Hanan Preparatory 1995, the to headed 1993 Ashrawi From Bibliotheca the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was She He hasreceivedhonorarydoctoratesfromseveralforeign universities. Hanan Ashrawi istherecipientofnumerousinternational peace,human She was a Member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Third Way Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She received He haswrittenfortybooks,translatedintomorethantwenty languages, In 1989,helaunchedaninternationalprogramofactionagainst thedisastrous program European the and 1980, in Faim la Contre Action founded He From 1991 to 1993, he founded and became first President of the European is Honorary Jacques Attali Member of the Council of State in France. He is He wasaFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca Jacques Attali L’Express magazine is a French professor and writer. He has a doctorate in Economics . Finance Bibliotheca Alexandrina , an international non- international an , Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report notably, populationresettlement. forestry,change, social organizations, participation, grassroots most andperhaps (2003–2008), beforebecomingaMemberofits Advisory Boardin2009. the needsofworldthroughsocialsciences. Anthropology inrecognition of hisscholarlyefforts tounderstandandserve for Applied Society the by conferred Prize Malinowski Bronislaw the of and the American Anthropological Association, by Applied Anthropology,granted non-profit organizations andNGOs. other and IUCN to advisor as also and organizations science social national and international several of officer elected as served He issues. resettlement CGIAR, FAO, BP, and others on social policy,UNDP, cultural, OECD, ADB, poverty,as such and population organizations international advised also has He Romania. Sciences, of Academy the to elected was he 1991, In 2003). Research (CGIAR) Science Council and Technical Advisory Committee (1998– member oftheBoardDirectorsPACT, USA. a currently is He China. Nanjing, in University Hohai at Studies Social and with the Global Environment Facility; and Honorary Professor for Resettlement International GeorgeWashington at Affairs Social Senior Advisor University; policies, fromtheperspectivesofanthropologyandsociology. agricultural and environmental, social, specifically policies; development on academic researcherandanapplied anthropologist whoseworkhasfocused in 2008. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2007) Alexandrina non-consecutive terms. four for served She societies. prosperous more and equitable, more healthier, supports researchers from thedeveloping world intheir search forthe means tobuild that corporation Crown Canadian a (IDRC), Centre Research Development International the of Governors of Board the to appointed was she 1984, In (ICARDA). Areas Dry the in Research Agricultural for Center Food PrizeandtheSyngentaFoundation. Fertilizer Development Council, Member of the Advisory Council International the of Member Board Trust, Diversity Crop the of Chair Board also WaterGlobal is the She of Partnership. Patron and Forum Rosenberg the Board, General’s Advisory Secretary UN the Network, WaterCanadian the Environment, Suez Group for Committee Advisory Foresight the Security, of Arts degreefromtheUniversityofBritishColumbia in1966. She was a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was She Wateron Council Global Worldof Agenda Forum Chair Economic is She He has published on a wide range of aspects of development including: social ofdevelopmentincluding: social onawide rangeofaspects published has He He was also a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Policy Public Awardfor Kimball T. Solon the of recipient the is He Michael Cernea served on the Consultative Group on International Agricultural and Anthropology of Professor Research currently is Cernea Michael an both is philosophy, social and sociology in PhD Cernea, M. Michael Margaret Catley-Carlson has chaired CABI and the Board of the International Margaret Catley-Carlson is a Canadian civil servant. She received a Bachelor of the World

Margaret Catley-Carlson Michael M.Cernea Romania/USA Canada

33 Advisory Board 34 WHO WE ARE Farouk El-Baz Umberto Eco Egypt Italy enormously successful both as a novel and a film. world’s top100intellectuals. University ofBologna critic in fiction, biblical analysis, biblical fiction, in is anintellectualmysterycombiningsemiotics of Oxford. Hewasvoted2 of of Merit(FirstClass). Medal, and Special Recognition Award; and the Arab Republic of Egypt Order including NASA’s Apollo Achievement Award, Exceptional Scientific Achievement Board in2006. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2005, before becoming a Member of its Advisory international foundationsandcommittees. the NAE Draper Prize. He also served on the boards of numerous national and as well as Science, Imaging on Initiative Keck the and Sciences Geological young geologiststostudyaridlandfeatures. in arid land studies, as well as the “Farouk El-Baz Student Award” to encourage Award for Desert Research”, an annual award aimed at encouraging excellence El-Baz “Farouk the GSAestablished the 1999, In (GSA). of America Society Science, Royal Astronomical Society (London), Explorers Club, and Geological Desert Research and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of of the International Astronomical Union. He is President of the Arab Society for Engineering ofBostonUniversity. Computer and Electrical and Archaeology of Departments the in Professor at theMassachusettsInstituteof Technology, MIT (1962/1963). Doctorate from the same university in 1964 in Geology, after conducting research his Master’s degreefromtheUniversity of Missouriin1961,andcompleted a received 1958, in University Shams at Ain Chemistry and Geology in studies the worldand16literaryawardsdecorations. Board in2003. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2002, before becoming a Member of its Advisory significations. publication platform for manyscholarswhoseworksarerelated tosignsand academic jargon), an influential semiotic journal. The academic texts,children’s booksandmanyessays. written also has asa“thinkingperson’sbeen described He DaVinci Code”. medieval studies and He isauthor of over 25 novels, including Farouk El-Baz serves as a member of the Lunar Nomenclature Task Group He co-founded Umberto Eco is President of the of President is Eco Umberto Umberto Eco has a number of honorary doctorates from universities around the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was Eco Umberto an is Eco Umberto He receivedmanyhonorarydegreesandwonnumeroushonors andawards, the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was El-Baz Farouk on Committees Academies National US the chaired has El-Baz Farouk Research and Sensing Remote for Center the of Director currently is He Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian-American scientist. He pursued his undergraduate andnovelist . Versus: Quadernidistudisemiotici (known asVSinItalian literary theory , and an Honorary Fellow ofKellogg College Italian nd inProspect magazine

medievalist . His 1988novel S cuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Studi di Superiore cuola , semiotician The Nameof the Rose, which was The NameoftheRose(1980) VS ’s 2005globalpollofthe Foucault’s Pendulumhas Bibliotheca Alexandrina has become an important , philosopher , University , literary Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Board in2005. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2004, before becoming a Member of its Advisory reproduction. Chair of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2001–2007. Schools (TDA), responsible for teacher training in the UK, 2003–2009. He was Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, 1993–2001. Biological Secretary of the Royal Society (UK’s Academy of Sciences), 1987–1993; and knighted in1992forhisservicestoscience. in 1964,aPhDPharmacology, bothfromthe University of Bristol. He was and Biochemistry; in BSc a obtained he 1960, In Forum”. Advisory “STEM of Zoology at the University of Oxford and Chairman of the UK Government’s France, Iceland,Japan,Spain,Sweden,UKandUSA. Finland, Canada, in universities various from doctorates honorary received of theCouncil Women World Leadersin1996. and Technology (COMEST) at UNESCO, 1997–2001; and the Founding Chair the first Chair of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge 1972–1980. Theatre, City the later (Leikfélag Reykjavíkur), Company Theatre Reykjavík 2003. Alexandrina, 2001/2002, before becoming a Member of its Advisory Board in Iceland. She was a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees in of Women’sAssociation the Rights the Bibliotheca of Member Honorary an and of Madrid, emphasis ondrama,andholdsadegreeinPedagogicalStudies. special a with literature French and English in majored has She University. Grenoble and at the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as Theater History at Copenhagen of University the at Studies Theater and Literature studied She State. of Head constitutional as elected be to world the in female first the was 1980–1996, Brian KeithFollett was aFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees ofthe for Agency Development and Government’sTraining UK the chaired He has She and awards, and honors many received Vigdíshas Finnbogadóttir Iceland; in Children Association the Save of founders the of one was She Prior tobecoming President of Iceland, she wasthe Artistic Director of the Currently, she is a He has published over 300 scientific papers on biological clocks and seasonal He was Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, 1978–1993; Brian Keith Follett is currently a non-stipendiary Professor in the Department Iceland, of Republic the of President fourth the Finnbogadóttir,Vigdís UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador , aMember of the Club

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Brian KeithFollett United Kingdom Iceland

35 Advisory Board 36 WHO WE ARE Tahar BenJelloun Hans-Peter Geh Morocco/France Germany College ofLibrarianshipinCologne. and training at the City and University Library of Frankfurt am Main and at the Universities of Franfurt am Main and Bristol. He received his library education Board in2007. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2006, before becoming a Member of its Advisory served asco-editorofnationalandinternationaljournals. also He countries. inseveral professor avisiting lecturedas 1985–1991. He as PresidentoftheInternationalFederationLibrary Associations (IFLA), associations and institutions, as well as international organizations. Heserved of the Ancient Libraryof Alexandria. Stuttgart. He is also a Member of the International Commission for the Revival and Emeritus Director of the Württembergische State and University Library in Board in2005. Bibliotheca Alexandrina until 2004, before becoming a Member of its Advisory He hasparticipatedintranslatingmanyofhisworks. languages. Festival friendship between people” at the and “peace for prize special a awarded was he 2006, September In work. his Absence of Light.In2005,hewasrewarded the Jelloun received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel novel his for Goncourt Prix Error ofNight,whichappearedin1997. criticism. His worksinclude Le Monde.Hehaswritten many novelsaswellbooksofpoetry, proseand the Frenchlanguage.In1975,hereceivedhisDoctoratein his native language is Officer oftheLégiond’honneur. Hans-Peter Geh held numerous positions in German libraries and literary and libraries German in positions numerous held Geh Hans-Peter Tahar Ben JellounisaFoundingMember of the Board of Trustees ofthe Hans-Peter Geh is a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a is Geh Hans-Peter Currently, he is President of the European Foundation for Library Cooperation Hans-Peter Geh studied history, political science, and English literature at the Tahar Ben Jelloun received numerous awards for his works. He received the During 1972, he began to write articles and reviews for the French newspaper Tahar BenJelloun,bornin1944,isaMoroccan His novels . InFebruary2008, Le Racism Explique amaFille has been translated into 33 languages. L’Enfant de Sable and Arabic, heisoneofthe greatest contemporary writersin Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Cross of Grand in 1987. In July 2004, Tahar2004, Ben July In 1987. in La NuitSacrée Solitaire; Lazio between Europe and the Mediterranean were translated into 43 into translated were La Nuit Sacrée L’Enfant de Sable;LaNuitSacrée,and Prix Ulysse forthe entirety of poet andwriter Bibliotheca Alexandrina Social Psychiatry The Blinding . Although . Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report in 2005. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2004) Alexandrina Panel oftheGlobalEnvironmentFacility(STAP/GEF), 2005–2008. Nations ConferenceforEnvironmentandDevelopment(Earth Summit). coordinated the participation of civil society organizations in theUnited she 1993, In 2000. founded FundaciónFuturoLatinoamericano. From 1990to1992,Kakabadse January until held she position a Ecuador, of Republic America’s mostimportantenvironmentalNGOsinEcuador. worked until 1990. Kakabadse helped Fundación Natura become one ofLatin she where Quito, in Natura Fundación the of Director when she Executive with appointed was in 1979, nexus Her began officially Union. movement conservation Conservation environmental World the (IUCN), Nature of of board the of member directors andadvisoryboardsofnumerousinternationalfoundations. also is She organizations. environmental largest America. She Latin in management conflict to dedicated NGO regional Latinoamericano, a level towardssustainabledevelopment. Ecuador.grassroots Quito, at of work University pioneering achieved has She and hasmanypublishedworks. in 2009. its of Member Board a Advisory becoming before (2003–2008), Alexandrina, since 1999. channel Culture France the on Tempsdes Concordance emission weekly the Les Rencontres de La Potographie d’Arles since 2009. He has been producing 1990. He presides the jury of Prix du Livre d’Histoire du Sénat since 2007, and Honorary PresidentofFestivalInternationalduFilmHistoriquedePessacsince of the Scientific Council of Rendez-vous de l’Histoire de Blois since 2003, and Europartenaires along with Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He has been Co-President of the and 1993, is a History Professor, currently teaching contemporary history at in mediahistory She was a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was She Advisory Technical and Scientific the of Chair was Kakabadse Yolanda the for Environment of Minister appointed was she 1998, August In Conservation for Union International the of President was she Previously Futuro Fundación of Board Advisory the of Chair is YolandaKakabadse Kakabadse Yolanda Jean-Noël Jeanneneyheldmanyotherpostsincluding: Jean-Noël Jeanneney, a member of the French Government between 1991 between Government French the of Jeanneney,member Jean-Noël a Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a He also served on the boards, councils and committees of numerous institutions, He alsoservedontheboards,councilsandcommitteesofnumerousinstitutions, • • • • • • President, Radio France and Radio France Internationale (1982–1986). Secretary ofStateforForeign Trade(1991/1992), and Secretary ofStateforCommunication(1992/1993), President, ScientificCounciloftheHistoryInstitute(1991–2000), Columnist, Chairman, BibliothèquenationaledeFrance(2002–2007), He wasalsoaMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca is Presidentofthe World Wide Fund (WWF),oneoftheworld’s , anareawhichhehelpedpioneer. Journal duDimanche(1999–2001), tde Euainl scooy t h Catholic the at Psychology Educational studied Élisabeth Guigou since1998.HehasbeenPresident French . Jeanneney specialized historian andpolitician.Jeanneneyspecialized think tank the Jean-Noël Jeanneney Yolanda Kakabadse Ecuador France

37 Advisory Board 38 WHO WE ARE Kiyoshi Kurokawa Anne-Marie Lizin Belgium Japan in 2010. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2004–2009) Alexandrina Conference fortheDecade Women (1980). UN the at Government Belgian the represented She institutions. international She worksextensivelyintheareasofwomenandchildrenrights. Belgian Senate in 2010. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2004–2009) Alexandrina Excellence in Academic Achievements, in1999. Academies oftheUSA. Association of American Physicians,andtheInstitute ofMedicinetheNational InterAcademy Panel and Council, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Nephrology,of Society Nephrology, Japanese of the Society International the Medicine, Internal of Society Japanese the including societies professional Health, 2005–2008. of Determinants Social for Commission WHO the on Commissioner a and Nations UniversityinJapan. University.Honorary the of Member is He United the of Committee Advisory Columbia Institute, Earth the of Scientist Senior a Tokyo.of is University He Japan Chapter, American College of Physicians; and Professor Emeritus at the Governor, Japan; Institute, Policy Health the of Chairman Studies; Policy from theSchoolofMedicine,University Tokyo, in1962. Anne-Marie Lizinhasreceivednumerousawards: Anne-Marie Lizin was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Anne-Marie Lizin served on the assemblies, boards and committees of many Anne-Marie Lizin served in many posts throughout her career. To name a few: the of President female first the was She politician. a is Lizin Anne-Marie Kiyoshi Kurokawa served as Special Advisor to the Cabinet, 2006–2008; Cabinet, the to Special Advisor as served Kurokawa Kiyoshi Kiyoshi Kurokawa is a Professor of Medicine. He received his MD degree Kiyoshi KurokawawasaMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca for Japan of Government the from Purple of Order of recipient a is He prestigious many of officer executive an been has and member a is He for Institute Graduate National the at Fellow Academic currently is He • • • • • • • • • • • Mayor, Huy(1983–2009). Trade (1988–1992),and State Secretary for European Affairs, Deputy to the Minister of Foreign Member, ChamberofRepresentatives Appointed Senator, BelgianSenate Directly ElectedMember, BelgianSenate(1999and2003), President, BelgianSenate(2004–2007), Quaestor, BelgianSenate (2007–2009), Commandeur del’ordreLéopold (2003). Chevalier del’ordrelaLégion d’honneur, France(2005),and Héros delaLiberté,Hungary(2006), Grand-Croix del’ordreLéopoldII(2007), . In 1971, she graduated in economics at the (1995–1999), (1991–1995), Bibliotheca Alexandrina Universit é de Liege . Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report in 2010. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2004–2009) Alexandrina political affairs. and economic international on extensively written has He affairs. public and number ofinternationalcommissionsandcommitteesdealing withinternational economic andoperationsassignmentsbeforejoiningtheIFC. 1958–1970; and served both at headquarters and in the field in a variety of senior Operating Officer, 1977–1981. He served with the International Monetary Fund, and second in command, 1974–1977, and as Executive Vice-President and Chief to that, Qureshi was at the International Finance Corporation as Vice-President Vice-President for Operations, in Senior charge as of all then Bank operations, and 1987–1991. Prior 1980–1987; Bank, the of Officer Financial Chief and Finance for Senior Vice-President as first WorldBank, the at was he 1991, initiated asubstantialnumberofstrongreformmeasures.From1980to Qureshi Moeen minister, prime caretaker as tenure three-month his During on severalcorporateandpublicserviceboards. which undertakesprivateequityinvestmentsintheemerging markets.Heserves heritage, andarchaeology, andarepublishedinseverallanguages. among museumsthroughouttheworld. of Museums (ICOM)—a UNESCO agency established to promote cooperation From 1974 to 1985, he served as Secretary-General of the International Council Institute (GCI), part of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, California (USA). in 2006. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2005) Alexandrina directed theCaixaCulturalCentersinMadridandPalmadeMallorca. also Monreal Bank. Caixa the of branch cultural and social the Barcelona; in 1990 and1991foraNewMuseumIslamic Arts inDoha,Qatar. advisor and member of the jury for the competition sponsored by the Trust during as served 2001 he Awardand Committees; 1998 Steering the of member a as member of the Master Jury ofthe1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and Aga KhanDevelopmentNetwork. the of initiatives cultural the for responsibility assumes and 2002, in Culture field ofculturethroughouthisprofessionalcareer. Economics from the from Economics MAin an BAand a Moeen Qureshi was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Moeen Qureshi is a Conservation Getty the of Director was Monreal Luis 1990, to 1985 From He has also served as an advisor to several international institutions chairing a 1993. in period interim an for Pakistan of Minister Prime as served He Currently, Qureshi is Chairman and Managing Partner of EMP Global LLC, Luis Monreal’s thatfocusonpainting,architecture,cultural writings numerous He wasaFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca During 2001, Luis Monreal was Director-General of the “La Caixa” Foundation a as served also has Monreal Luis Culture, for Trust Khan Aga the With for TrustKhan the Aga of Manager General appointed was Monreal Luis Luis Monrealisahistorianandarchaeologist, and hasbeeninvolvedinthe Indiana University Pakistani economist and . University of Punjab, andaPhDin of University political figure. Qureshi holds

Moeen Qureshi Luis Monreal Pakistan Spain

39 Advisory Board 40 WHO WE ARE Mamphela Ramphele Roelof Rabbinge The Netherlands South Africa 2004/2005. Prior to joining the Bank, Mamphela Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor (GCIM), Migration International for Commission Global the on Co-Chair as economic challengesandpromotesustainablegrowth. Innovation Agency to help stimulate greater use of technology to address socio- energized nationaldebatesonSouth Africa’s future,launchedinMay2009. private sector. She is Chair of Convenors of the Dinokeng Scenarios that have and public the both in Company TransformationAdvisory specialized based Public Health,fromtheUniversityof Witwatersrand. University of South Africa; and diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene, and from the University of Cape Town; a BCom degree in Anthropology Social Administration from the in PhD a holds She activist. anti-apartheid an was and (2004–2009) beforebecoming aMemberofits Advisory Board in2010. international awards,includingnumeroushonorarydoctorates. critical socio-economicissuesinSouth Africa. about titles important many of author an is She later. years five Chancellor Vice-Deputy appointed was and 1986, in fellow research a as University the joined She university. African South a at position this hold to female black of the University of Cape Town, a post she took up in 1996, becoming the first of Trustees (1995–2000).HewasaMemberoftheBoard Trustees ofthe (CGIAR) and was Chairman of the International Rice Research Institute Board Research International Agricultural of Group Consultative the of centers four and served as editor of several journals. He served on the Board of Trustees of He ledvariousmissionsandagriculturalprogramsindevelopingcountries Board in2009. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2003–2008) before becoming a Member of its Advisory from the Agricultural University, Wageningen. She was recently appointed Chair of a newly established Technologyand established newly a of Chair appointed recently was She She was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, He alsoservesontheboardsofnumerousnationalandinternationalinstitutions. Mamphela Ramphele has received numerous prestigious national and national prestigious numerous received has Ramphele Mamphela She served as Managing Director of the World Bank, 2000–2004. She served Mamphela Ramphele is the Executive Chair of Letsema Circle, a Cape Town an is Ramphele Mamphela Roelof Rabbingecurrentlyholdsthefollowingpositions: Roelof Rabbinge obtained his MSc and PhD in 1971 and 1976 respectively Roelof Rabbinge is a former Member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament. • • • • Netherlands) since2001. Wageningen University & Advisor for the Board of Directors (Wageningen, at Security Food and Development Sustainable in Professor University Academy ofSciences(KNAW) since2002,and Chairman, Board of Earth and Life Sciences (RA) of the Royal Netherlands since 2007, Italy/USA) Rome/Washington,DC; (CGIAR; Research Agricultural International on Group Consultative the of Council Science Chairman, (MER, Utrecht,Netherlands)since2009, Deputy Chairman, Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment academic , businesswomanand Bibliotheca Alexandrina medical doctor Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Level Advisory BoardonSustainable Development. and was a member of the Commission on Global Governance and the UN High- Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Global on Affairs, Winning Workplaces,the Synergosthe Prospect, American the Field Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Council ShoreBank International Ltd, and a number of non-profit organizations, including currently on the boards of Marsh and McLennan Companies, ShoreBank Corporation, Synergos Institute. the with collaboration in Matters Giving Global of preparation the oversees the Task Force that is developing a Climate Action Plan for the city of Chicago. co-chairs is She Committee. Centennial Burnham the Vice-Chairas of serves provided leadership in the planning of the 2009 Burnham Plan Centennial, and PhD fromOxfordUniversityin1969. Advisory Boardin2004. its of Member a becoming before 2003, until Alexandrina Bibliotheca the of on thehistoricalimportanceofnewgeometriesinhistoryartandscience. (1998–2000), shepublishedover50articlesandlecturedatleadinguniversities 1996; andPublisherofmediaethicsonlinejournal,StinkyJournalism.or Laboratory, New York City (co-founded with the late Research Stephen Science Jay Gould) Art since the of Director (Astrobio.net); 2005 since Magazine Communication at the University of Iowa; Developer at NASA’s Astrobiology scholarship. pioneered in the development of both digital publishing and interdisciplinary since 1996,andhasheldnumeroussolomuseumexhibitions. in 2004. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2003) Alexandrina in theFallof2007. Chicago’s global future. The Study Group’s Report; Adele Simmons is Simmons Adele her and 1963 in College Radcliffe BAfrom her obtained Simmons Adele She is also President of the Global Philanthropy Partnership, where she where Partnership, Philanthropy Global the of President also is She she where 2020, Metropolis Chicago of Vice-Chairis Simmons Adele Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a is Shearer Roland Rhonda Gallery Wildenstien the by represented been has Shearer Roland Rhonda As an Associate of the Harvard University Department of Psychology Mass and Journalism of School the at Lecturer Adjunct is she Currently, Rhonda Roland Shearer is an American sculptor, scholar and journalist who She served on presidential commissions on world hunger and the environment, was aFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca She on group study Affairs Global on Council the of Co-Chair as served She a Senior the a Worldto Advisor Forum, andis Economic Global Edge,wasreleased g. Rhonda RolandShearer Adele Simmons USA USA

41 Advisory Board 42 WHO WE ARE Monkombu Swaminathan Wole Soyinka Nigeria India India (NationalCommissiononFarmers). of Security Nutrition and Food Agriculture, on Commission National the of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India. He is the Chairman people ofthe20 India included in TIME Programme high-yielding varieties developing further and introducing in success and leadership his for in India”, in 2006. Board its Advisory of Member a becoming before (2001–2005) Alexandrina, Academy ofSciences National Academy of Sciences Institute graduate degree inCytogenetics Science Agricultural from Zoology in BSc a obtained He Institute. In 2008, he became Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Franklin Humanities Advisory Boardin2005. of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2001–2004) before becoming a Member of its (PRONACO). Soyinka was also a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees Conference National alternative an of spearheads the of one became he 2005, English Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and the President’s culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media and communication. In communication. and media expression, of freedom rights, human culture, of promotion African the Goodwill for (UNESCO) OrganizationAmbassador great scopeandrichnessofwords. novels and poetry. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by Los Angeles, California, USA. Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama, Marymount Institute Professor in Residence at Loyola Marymount University in for Literature. Prize Nobel the awarded be to ever writer African first the became he 1986, He wasaFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca Monkombu Swaminathan is a Fellow of the Monkombu Swaminathan has been described by the In 2005,hereceivedanhonorarydoctoratedegreefromPrincetonUniversity. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an is Swaminathan Sambasivan Monkombu He currently holds the UNESCO-Cousteau Chair in Chair UNESCO-Cousteau the holds currently He Soyinka is currently the Elias Ghanem Professor of Creative Writing at the In playwright. and poet writer, a is “Wole”Soyinka Oluwole Akinwande In 1994, he was designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural (IARI), Economic Ecology’ as‘theFatherofEconomic th New Delhi century. Coimbatore Agricultural College Agricultural Coimbatore , andtheItalian Academy ofSciences. ofwheatinIndia. Magazine’s 1999 list of the 20 most influential Asian most 20 the of list Magazine’s1999 . He is known as the “ , theRussian Academy of Sciences in1949fromtheIndian Agricultural Research Maharajas College Maharajas Royal Society of London, the US Father of the Green Revolution Indian . Hewasoneofthreefrom United Nations Environment Bibliotheca Alexandrina . He obtained his post- his obtained He . Ecotechnology , and another BSc in BSc another and , agriculture scientist , theChinese atthe . Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Alexandrina until 2006, before becoming a Member of its Advisory Board in 2007. Technical Cooperation Programmes. numerous nationalandinternationalboardscommittees. of member a also is She Association. Friendship Egypt–Finland the of Chair and Heritage National Preserve to Committee Vice-ChairmanEgyptian the of is She Environment. the of Preservation the of Association National the and opening oftheBibliotheca Alexandrina. a Member of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and participated in the partner in the International Group for Legal Consultations. She was selected as Al the Ahram dailynewspaper. for analyst political and writer and books, of number a of author is She sessions. Union’s of one of chairperson elected be to ever female first the was she and Union, Inter-Parliamentary the of Committee Executive the to Relations Committee in the Egyptian Parliament; the first Arab female elected a PhDfromNew York University. a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angles; and Law,of University; Faculty Cairo the from LL.B an received She Consultant. integration, andglobalpublicgoods. regional peace-building, management, water studies, development as such subjects covering Spanish), and Portuguese Korean, Chinese, into translated Board in2004. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, until 2003 before becoming a Member of its Advisory was Chairofanumbernationalandinternationalcouncilscommittees. and (OECD) Development and Co-operation Economic for Organisation the at served also He Foundation. Peace Sasakawa the of Director Program and (IDRI); Institute Research Development FASIDInternational the of Director Institute ofPolicyStudiesin Tokyo. Research Graduate the at teaches and Japan, Development, International of She was elected for three terms as President of the Board of Trustees of UN She is a Member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly, in addition to being a Leila Takla is an Egyptian Professor of Law and Management, and a Legal Kazuo Takahashi Leila Takla isaFoundingMemberofthe Boardof Trustees oftheBibliotheca She is the Founding President of the Egyptian Federation of Women Lawyers, Foreign the of President elected be to female first the is Takla Leila been having (some Japanese and English in publications major has He Kazuo Takahashi is a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kazuo Takahashiis was a Professor at the International Christian University; currently the President of the Society of Researchers of Society the of President the currently

Kazuo Takahashi Leila Takla Egypt Japan

43 Advisory Board 44 WHO WE ARE Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Carl Tham Sweden Greece Commission ofKosovo,andMembertheHumanSecurity in 2008. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2007) Alexandrina other internationalhumanitarianandculturalinstitutions. Alexandrina until 2003, before becoming a Member of its Advisory Board in 2006. in 2008forhisworkongenderequalitySwedishuniversities. awards anddistinctions. International Peace Movement and the Global Coalition WomenWomen’s Mubarak Defending Suzanne Peace. the with cooperation close in 2006, January in in held Athens conference Beings” Human Traffickingagainst of Community Business Tableof Round “Athens the VardinoyannisMarianna co-sponsored UNESCO and the World Bank; Co-Chairman of the Independent International Stockholm. He was a member of the task force on higher education convened by to 2006, he was Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Institute of Future Studies, Germany, 2002–2006. to and Center,Ambassador 1999–2002; International Palmes Olof of General Secretary- 1994–1998; Government, Democratic Social the in Education of Minister became He 1985. from years ten for (SIDA) Agency Development International Swedish the of Director-General as and Board, Energy National of Energy, 1978/1979. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Director-General of the Liberal Party, 1969–1978; Member of the Parliament, 1976–1982; and Minister Movement; and serves as a board member of, and collaborates with, several with, collaborates and of, member board a as serves and Movement; of the Board of Directors of the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace “ELPIDA”. She is Founding Member of the Global Humanitarian Forum; Member Cancer with Children of Friends of Association the of Founder-President her contributiontoconstructingaEuropeofCitizens. of children and the family. She was elected Woman of Europe in recognition of the UniversityofSheffield. at in Archaeology candidate PhD a is and of Arts, History BAin a Colorado, BAa holds social activist.She a and in University Denver Economics from in She was a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca the of Trustees of Board the of Member Founding a was She Carl Tham is a Founding Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca He was awarded the United Student Unions of Sweden (SFS) Equality Award Marianna Vardinoyannis receivednumerousnationalandinternational In 1999, she was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. In this capacity, Carl Tham is a social commentator and politician. He was Secretary of the Carl Tham served on many public commissions and committees. From 1999 She is Founder-President of the Foundation for the Child and the Family and Vardinoyannis has been an unceasing advocate and campaigner for the rights Marianna V. Vardinoyannis is a philanthropist, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Bibliotheca Alexandrina .

Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Advisory Boardin2006. its of Member a becoming before (2001–2005) Alexandrina Bibliotheca the is anelectedmemberofnumerousinternationalacademiesand learnedsocieties. and Technology, and also as the President’s Science Envoy to the Middle East. He has garneredhonorsandawardsfromaroundtheglobe. the fourdimensionsofspaceandtime. microscopy forthedirectvisualization of materials and biological behavior in of atomicmotion. Morerecently, heandhisgrouphavedevelopedelectron 4D phenomena in afemtosecond, a millionth of abillionth of asecond,the scale developments infemtoscience,makingpossibleobservationsofmolecular Berkeley, beforejoiningthefacultyatCaltech. Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral (IBM) fellowship at the University of California, of University the from PhD a USAcompleted the in and Egypt, in education early his received He Caltech. at Biology Physical for Center Foundation’s Moore the of Director the currently is and (LMS), Sciences Molecular for ten years, he was the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Laboratory and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). For Computer Science. in PhDs 25 over supervised has and patents, US two holds and books, three President oftheNational Academy ofEngineering. of Virginia as AT&T Professor and University Professor. In 1997, he was elected Director of the National Science Foundation. In 1990, he returned to the University was he Assistant 1990, to 1988 From 1988. until Officer Executive Chief and left Carnegie Mellon and founded Tartan Laboratories and served as Chairman language anddevelopedagroundbreakingoptimizing compilerforit. In1981,he 1975. While at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed the in BLISS programming Professor and 1973, in Professor Associate becoming Science, Computer in 2007. Board Advisory its of Member a becoming before (2001–2006) Alexandrina and internationalacademiessocieties. national numerous of member also is He Science. of editor reviewing a is He Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Science PhDeverawardedfromtheUniversityof Virginia, in1968. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and the first Computer languages and compilers. He obtained a BSc in Engineering Physics and an MSc For hiscontributions to science and forhispublic service, Ahmed Zewail Chemistry,of Professor Chair Pauling Linus the is Zewail Hassan Ahmed the authorofmorethan100papersandtechnical He isreports,haswritten Ahmed ZewailwasalsoaFoundingMemberoftheBoard of Trustees of Ahmed Zewail serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for his pioneering of Professor Assistant as University Mellon Carnegie joined he 1968, In He wasaFoundingMemberoftheBoard Trustees oftheBibliotheca He is a University Professor and AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied William Allan Wulf isacomputerscientistnotableforhisworkinprogramming Ahmed HassanZewail William Wulf Egypt USA

45 Advisory Board Board of Trustees Meet the Management Organization Chart Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Ifla Center for rabic Speaking Arabic Speaking Public Services Bibliographic Budget Office Main Library Department Department Francophone Specialized nformation Information Department Department Department Department Libraries & Libraries & Institutions Standards Libraries Library T Govern. Organization Sect Arabic Services Library Section echnical Legal Department Financial Control General Counsel/ Special T Internal Audit Department Department echnical or Advisors Desk Affairs Sect Hellenistic Studies Calligraphy Center Dialogue Forum Academic & Manuscript Manuscript Arts Center Antiquities Cul Alex Med Museum Museum CultNat Center Center CSSP PSC tural Organization Chart 4 3 1 2 or (As at 30June 2010) Direct Adminstrati on Internal Security Office Administration Secretarial Unit Engineering Department Department Department Finance & Department Department Personnel Financial Finance Sect or or’s 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. International SchoolofInformationScience Information &Communication Technology Planetarium ScienceCenter Center forSpecialStudies&Programs Alexandria andMediterraneanResearchCenter Center for the Documentation of Cultural & Natural Heritage ICT Department Sect IS ICT 6 5 or

Resource Development Corporate Secretariat Special Projects Peace Studies Department Department Department Institute for Department Publishing Public Relations& Visits &Halls Relations International External Department Department Department Department Sect Contacts Studio Media or

49 Meet the Management 50 WHO WE ARE Attorneys- at-Law(2) Coordinator General Dep Legal artment Counsel/ Internal

Dep artment Audit DIRECTOR’s OFFICE Fixed Project Manager Payable Section Accounting & Projects Unit Accounts General Funded Assets Dep Financial Control artment Unit

Technical Organization Government

Desk Bibliotheca Alexandrina SPecial advisors Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Council forHumanRights. Council. Heisanactivememberofseveralsocieties,includingtheNational was President of the Arab, Foreign Affairs andNational Security of theShura He isthe Secretary-General oftheNational Democratic Party in Alexandria, and Permanent Vice-President oftheInternationalLaw Association basedinLondon. of Alexandria, the former Vice-President of University of Alexandria and Sun (Japan),andhasbeenawarded26HonoraryDoctorates. Rising the of Order the and (France) d’Honneur Legion the including honors, many received has widely.He published has and (1992-2000) international positionsincluding Vice-President ofthe World Bank many held has and PhD), and (Masters Harvard and Engineering) in (BSc Egypt in of educated Library was the He to Alexandria. affiliated andresearchcenters museums ofthetwelve theBoards chairs He France. the Libraryof Alexandria inEgyptandProfessor attheCollegede DIRECTOR’S OFFICE General Counsel/LegalDepartment Fax: +2034820452 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034830339 Email: [email protected] Mohamed Said El Dakkak is a Professor of International Mohamed SaidElDakkakisaProfessorLaw, University Ismail Serageldin,anEgyptianNational,iscurrentlyDirectorof Zeinab ElGhoneimy Attorney-At-Law Deputy Director Attorney-At-Law, Supervisor (Head ofSection) Hala Essalmawi Mohamed SaidEl-Dakkak Coordinator (HeadofUnit) Ismail Serageldin Moneim Mohammed General Counsel Director Aber Abdel- Director/

51 Meet the Management 52 WHO WE ARE Financial Control Department Department Internal Audit Passant Moustafa Deputy Director Ashraf Mahdy Hossam Negm Director Director the reportingtoexternaldonors. of the BA financial statements, handling the BA operating budget and supervising Financial ControlDepartment.Hermainresponsibilitiesinclude thepreparation the of Director Deputy became she 2009, February In Section. Accounting Payable Unit, Head ofGeneral Accounting Unit, and Head ofManagement many responsibilitiesandtitles; Accounting Supervisor, Headof Accounts Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2001 as Junior Accountant. Since then she assumed English Department, University of Alexandria. She began her career with the stock marketandinevaluatingcompanies. had various positions as Director in relative fields, as well as experience in the has and treasury and finance audit, internal and external in is experience His Alexandria. He is a chartered accountant and has worked in multinational firms. of theBA FinancialControlDepartmentinNovember2008. Arab Accounting and Auditing Society in 1998. He assumed the post of Director Department for Reporting and People’s Assembly Affairs, andMember of the he held several other positions until he became Division Head in the CAO Central He started his career at the Central Auditing Organization (CAO) in 1987, where Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Passant Moustafa holds a BSc in Commerce from the Faculty of Commerce, Passant MoustafaholdsaBScinCommercefromtheFaculty ofCommerce, Email: [email protected] Hossam Negm graduated from the Faculty ofCommerce, University of Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Ashraf MahdyholdsaBScfromtheFacultyofCommerce,HelwanUniversity. Bibliotheca Alexandrina GovernmentOrganization Technical Desk Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report finance andgovernmentalaffairs. Alexandrina. Abdel Latif Hassan has vast experience in the fields of administration, the teampriorto,duringandfollowinginaugurationofBibliotheca out the directions of the strategy of the BA Director in all fields, including leading Financial Affairs at University of Alexandria. He has been involved in carrying Head of Accounts Head Payable Section Mohamed Akl Email: [email protected] Email: Abdel LatifHassanwasformerGeneralManagerof Administration and Accounting &Fixed Assets Section Mohamed Khedr Head ofGeneral Omar Hassouna Project Manager (Head ofUnit) Director/Head ofSector Abdel LatifHassan Radwa SalahMahmoud Head ofFundedProjects Unit

53 Meet the Management 54 WHO WE ARE Corporate Secretariat Secretariat Unit Hanan Mounir Executive Secretariat Dep Director Corporate artment Language Control Arabic Language Languages Unit T Control Unit BA ranslation & Foreign Section Section Websites DIRECTOR’s OFFICE(Cont.) Dep Publishng the World Development Program. Regional Office Alexandria, in Personnel and later in the division dealing with multinational organizations. Her last post was with the World Health Organization, artment Fax: +2034820450 Email: [email protected] Hanan Mounirhashadextensiveexperienceinvariousinternationaland External Printing Printing Section Administration Graphic Unit Graphic & Internal & Mobilization Unit Unit Unit Support Unit Resource Devlopmnt Project Dep Resourc artment Futuristic Studies Possessions Unit Research and Projects Unit Studies Unit Special Dep Unit Rania El-Bahtimi Head ofExecutive Secretariat Unit artment Projects Bibliotheca Alexandrina Peace Studies Institue for Department. conferences until her mostrecent position asDeputyDirectorof thePublishing Guidelines Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Post-Modern NovelinFrenchLiterature. Director of the Publishing Department. She isaMastersdegree candidate in progressed inanumberofcapacities until hermostrecent position asDeputy has she where 2001 in Bibliotheca Alexandrina the joined She organizations. multinational of range a in background professional diverse a has Omar Noha a obtained she 1992, In of Alexandria. University the of Arts, Faculty the from and internationally. locally both dealings her through publishing of field the in experience varied setting up the Publications Control Section in the Regional Office.She acquired and assistedinpreparingabookletentitled national and international organizations in the different field of conference from organization, certificates many received has She committees. logistics and and Events Section. She has been member of a number of conference technical Supervisor; Head of Conferences Unit; and Head ofConferences, Exhibitions she hasassumed many responsibilities and titles such asConference Center in 1993 as a Public Relations Specialist for the Conference Center. Since then, Bibliotheca the of with career her began She 1991. Alexandrina in Alexandria for a long time. She started her career as Supply Officer, and later in publishing the World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Publishing Department Diplôme d’Etudes Françaises Approfondies from the Sorbonne University. Fax: +2034820472 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820472 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820472 Email: [email protected] Hanan Abdelrazek graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, University Commerce, of Faculty the from graduated Abdelrazek Hanan Literature and Language French in Arts of Bachelor a holds Omar Noha in served She Literature. and Linguistics in Diploma a holds Gafour Olfat . She has gained experience in the management and planning of The Conference Planning Hanan Abdelrazek Olfat Gafour Deputy Director Deputy Director Director Noha Omar

55 Meet the Management 56 WHO WE ARE Head ofLanguageControl Resource DevelopmentDepartment Hala Omneya Nooh Director Abdelwahab Section Head of Administration Head Shahira Farouk Unit Head ofProject SupportUnit responsibility ofResourceDevelopmentattheBA since2004todate. and setuptheResearchGrantsProgram.Hala Abdelwahab hasassumedthe 2003, where she conducted strategic planning, organized international conferences and is fluent in three foreign languages. She joined the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in telecommunication andshippingcompaniesinEgypt.SheholdsaBachelorof Arts Mediterranean countries fromtheUK;andmanaging sales andmarketing for in Geneva;conductingregionalmarketresearchformicrocomputerproducts organizations abroad. She gained experience working with UN organizations Fax: +2034820473 Email: [email protected] Hala Abdelwahab hasadiverseprofessionalbackgroundinmulticultural Noha Khalifa Head of Arabic Language Ahmed Shaaban Control Unit Head ofResource MobilizationUnit Rana Ali External PrintingUnit Head ofInternal& Mohamed Gomaa Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head ofWebsites Section Salma El Ashmawy Hossam T Head ofFuturistic Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Ayman Mansourhasnumerouspublicationsandarticles. American Research Center in Egypt, the European Union, and Goethe Institute. projects with the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Inspector andResearcher, hehadsupervisednumerousrestorationandexcavation University. Priortojoining theBA andthroughouthiscareerasan Archaeological of Archeological Inspectorsbetween1994and 2001. Al Hayat and in correspondent and editor an as worked archeology.Khaled Azab on books He participated in several pertinent conferences and has published several Cultural Anthropology, at the Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo Monuments, alsofromCairo University. Heiscurrently an MA candidate in Cairo University, andPostgraduateDiplomasin Anthropology andPrehistoric Institute for PeaceStudies Studies Unit Fax: +2034820463 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820463 Email: [email protected] Ayman Mansour joined the BA in 2005. He hold a BA in Archeology from University. Cairo from Monuments Islamic in PhD a holds Azab Khaled Special Projects Department ammam Afaq newspapers as well as other Arab newspapers, and was Head (Head ofResearch and StudiesUnit) Safaa Khalifa Supervisor Head ofProjects Unit Neveen El-Sadek Shahinaz ElHennawi (Head ofUnit) Mohamed El-SayedMetwaly (Head ofPossessionsUnit) haled Mohamed Azab Khaled A Deputy Director Supervisor Director yman Mansour

57 Meet the Management 58 WHO WE ARE Center For Arabic Speaking Libraries &Information Budget Office Coordinator Institutions Section IFLA &Assessment Unit Library Services Library Section Children Services Y Library Section Early Children Programs Unit oung People’s and Programs Children’s Unit LIBRARY SECTOR Dep Specialized Libraries artment Arts &Multimedia Services Section Services Section Library Section Digital T Programs Unit Art Reference T Services and Mulitmedia Book Unit aha Hussein Library alking Bibliotheca Alexandrina Alexandria. website. SheholdsaBachelordegreein Tourism fromtheUniversityof construction oftheBA websiteaswelltherecently launchedBA libraries publishing brochures and flyers. During the interim period she managed the and events several organizing in participated and projects, of number a on of capacities. Shespentextensivetime workingwith theLibrary’s websites, Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report activities andpositiveliteracyexperiences. Her main objective is promoting literacy and love of booksthroughhands-on Alexandria andanEnglishInstructorforthedeafhard-of-hearing adults. adults. Dalia Hamada is also a free-lance teacher and educator in Cairo and with specialneedsanddevelopingappropriateprogramsfor childrenandyoung through teacher andparent education, raising awarenessoneducating children Egypt in education informal and formal of quality the improving at aims She education and preparation programs forschoolteachers and fresh graduates. university and students adults. She also has extensive experience in teacher in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the USA whereshetaught school aged children, from NorthCarolina University, USA.Shehas15yearsofteaching experience Library Sector Specialized LibrariesDepartment Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] Lamia Abdelfattah joined the BA in 2001 and has worked in a number a in worked has and BA2001 the Lamia in joined Abdelfattah Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] Dalia Hamada has a Masters degree in Early Childhood Special Education Head of Budget Office Hend El-Shennawy Section IFLA Centerfor Arabic SpeakingLibraries & InformationInstitutions(HeadofUnit) Dina Y oussef & HeadofSpecializedLibraries Acting HeadofSector Lamia Abdelfattah Department Deputy Director Dalia Hamada Bassem A (Head ofUnit) Coordinator wadalla

59 Meet the Management 60 WHO WE ARE Head ofMultimediaServices Arts &MultimediaLibrary Head ofYoung People’s Head ofTaha Hussein Osama Zakaria Library Section Library Section Sherine Said Ashraf Sakr Section Head ofChildren’s Ingi Abdelkader Library Section Arts &MultimediaLibrary Head ofLibraryServices Head ofDigitalTalking Head of Art Reference & Assessment Unit & Assessment Eiman lwazzan Services Section Rania Kalawy Amr Hegazy Book Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head of Acquisition Section became the Cataloguing and Classification Unit Leader, and in 2004, the Head she 2001, In maintenance. database and system library integrated BA the for librarian, member ofresearch projects and system librarian. She was responsible cataloger and later worked in a number of capacities as collection development as acataloger forEnglish,GreekandLatincollections. She becameasenior Studies, Universityof Alexandria. of the Technical Services Section. She holds a Bachelor degree in Greco-Roman Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofPurchasing Unit Marwa El-Gharabawy Technical ServicesDepartment Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] Manal Amin began her career with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 1996 in Alexandrina Bibliotheca the with career her began Amin Manal Gifts &Exchange Purchasing Unit Receiving Unit A cquisition Section LIBRARY SECTOR (Cont.) Unit Head ofBibliographic Access Section Gina Y ounes Dep Technical Ser artment Head ofCataloging vices Ola Omar Unit

Material Processing ccess Integrated Access Periodicals Unit Cataloging Unit Access Section Bibliographic System Unit Amr Abdelmoneim Unit Head ofMaterial Processing Unit Manal Amin Director Periodicals Unit Sherine Eid Head of

61 Meet the Management 62 WHO WE ARE E-Resources Unit Research Section Development Unit Library Services Research Unit Bibliographic Website Unit Coordinator Collection Services Unit LIBRARY SECTOR (Cont.) Information Dep Ser artment vices Services Section Education Unit Outreach Unit Programs For Services Unit Professionals Instructional Coordinator Educational Educational Continuing Library Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report events andpublications. teams. She was responsible for the organization of many international scholarly leader ofresearchprojects,andsupervisortheDocumentation and Research a cataloger, collection development librarian, information services specialist, of theBA integrated library system. Sheworkedinanumberofcapacities as Information ServicesDepartment Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] Omnia Fathallah joined the BA in 1993 and participated in the implementation Head ofEducational Head ofResearch Section Head ofCollectionDevelopmentUnit Services Section Suzanne Samir Rania Hosny Nermine BahaaEl-Din Head ofInstructional Amira Hegazy Services Unit Head ofResearch Unit Head ofE-Resources Unit Eiman lnoshokaty Valerie Atef Head ofContinuingEdu Mohamed Elgohary cation Unit Bibliographic ServicesCoordinator Nevine Nour el-Din - (Head ofUnit) Omnia Fathallah rfsinl Coordinator Professionals Programs forLibrary Director (Head ofUnit) Dalia Y ousry

63 Meet the Management 64 WHO WE ARE Delivery Services Services Section Main Library Services Unit Library Unit Map Library Depository Document Reference Unit LIBRARY SECTOR (Cont.) Main Library Dep Ser artment vices Access Services Circulation & InterLibrary Membership Loan Unit Section Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina and studyroomreservation. services, Map Library services as well as membership services and computer responsibilities includethe Main Library reference services, Depository Library current Her Unit. Services Reference the of Head the became she 2005 in and she wasresponsibleforthecollectiondevelopmentofBibliotheca Alexandrina, degree in Library Science from the ENSSIB (Lyon, France). From 2003 to 2005 Master’s a obtained she 2005, In development. collection and documentation control, bibliographical cataloging, including specializations; different in librarian a as worked Bibliotheca she the where joined Alexandrina she 2000, life in 1997 as a German teacher for adults at the Goethe-Institut Alexandria. In Communication, University of Alexandria, Manar Badr started her professional Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Main LibraryServicesDepartment Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] A graduate ofthe Faculty of Arts, Department ofSociology andMass Head ofReference ServicesUnit Ghada Elabbady Services Section Head of Access Head Nermin Ghaly Head ofDepositoryLibraryUnit Inter-Library LoanUnit Head ofCirculation & Ahmed Haggag Al-Moataz Gad Manar Badr Director

65 Meet the Management 66 WHO WE ARE Francophone Heads of(2) Section Dep Library artment LIBRARY SECTOR (Cont.) Bibliographc Dep Standards Arabic artment Bibliotheca Alexandrina work inthefieldofelectronicresourceslicensingandaccess. national her of recognition in 2006 the in from (ELA) Association award Library achievements Egyptian an received Ouf Rehab Director. BA the to Library Sector, and from 2008 up to her most recent position, she was Advisor BA the within Department Initiatives New the of Director became she 2006, responsible for launching and leading the BA Electronic Resources Unit. In became she 2002, in Cataloger,and a as 1998 BAin the with career librarian her started She France. Lyon, (ENSSIB), l’Information et des Bibliothèques and Information Science from Êcole Nationale Supérieure enSciences de University of Alexandria, Egypt, andaprofessionaldegree in Library Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report as ofJune2010. obtained the French nationality and put her experience in the hands of the BA Being intheserviceofFranceandFrancophonie BA. the at librarians of training the to contributing been has she 1996, Since taught French literature to foreignerspreparing diplomas from theSorbonne. the French Cultural Centre in Alexandria for 21 years. From 1990 to 2000, she in Paris,sheobtainedherlibrarian degree andreturned to headthelibrary of year a 1988. After in of Arts Bachelor her obtained She language. French the Arabic BibliographicStandardsDepartment Francophone LibraryDepartment Fax: +2034820460 Email: [email protected] the from Literature and Language French in BA a holds Ouf Rehab Email: [email protected] about passionate been always has literature, French in PhD Farid, Nazly Marwa El-Sahn Head ofSection formanyyears,she Rania Shaarawy Head ofSection Nazly Farid Rehab Ouf Director Director

67 Meet the Management 68 WHO WE ARE Alexandria &MediterraneanResearch Center (Alex-Med) Mohamed A Y ehia HalimZaki Head ofSector Director GIS &Database ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR Architectural Studies Unit Unit wad Alex-Med first HassanFathi Award for Architecture. Mohamed Awadthe 2009, won In Culture. of Council Supreme Egyptian the Alexandria Preservation Trust, andMemberofthe Architectural Committee at in Alexandria His latestpublication was Italy extensively on the modern history of Alexandria and its built environment. preservation of Alexandria’s urbanheritage.Hepublishesandlectures modern history, hehasbeencampaigning for thepastthirty years forthe Alexandrian in specializing historian architectural and urban An Alexandria. at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Fax: +2034820466 Email: [email protected] Mohamed Awad is an architectural and urban conservationist. He lectures of Alexandria. Medicine, of Faculty the of Dean University of former Alexandria, and Advisor tothePresidentofUniversity the is He 1971. in France, Nucleaires, Saclay, Franceandreceived a DEA inSciencefromParis, diagnosis in 1974, attended the Speaking Physiciansin Alexandria. University of Alexandria, andPresidentofthe Association oftheFrench Fax: +2034820469 Email: [email protected] Yehiaof RadiologyattheFacultyMedicine, HalimZakyisProfessor Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Hereceived his doctorate inradio- Coordinators (2) (2009). He is Founder of the of Founder is He (2009). aNTIQUITIES MUSEU Bibliotheca Alexandrina compiling, registeringandcatalogingtheitemstobedisplayed. the Museum, up Antiquities setting in involved was she 1999, in Alexandrina Bibliotheca the respectively.Joining 1995 and 1984 in Department Coptic its years, whereshetookpartintherenovation of theGreco-Roman Museumand of theCopticDepartment in the Alexandria Greco-RomanMuseumfor25 Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report the UKin2010. history. Herlatest publication is OnceUponaTime inJerusalem ; publishedin and translations studies oncomparative literature, postcolonial issues, and Alexandrian modern include publications Her 2005. in Research Academic for Studies. SaharHamoudawasawardedtheUniversityof Alexandria Award Alexandria. SheisalsoDirectorofthe Alexandria CenterforHellenistic Dean oftheFaculty of Languages and Translation at Pharos University in Alexandria, and formerChairperson oftheEnglishDepartment. She iscurrently Antiquities Museum Fax: +2034834995 Email: [email protected] Badreya Serry is a specialist in Greco-Roman civilization. She was Curator Fax: +2034820466 Email: [email protected] Sahar Hamouda isProfessorofEnglish Literature at the University of Coordinator (HeadofSection) Head ofGIS&DatabaseUnit Mohamed Meheina Galal Refay Head of Architectural StudiesUnit Coordinator (HeadofSection) Mohamed Essam Y asser Aref Badreya Serry Sahar Hamouda Deputy Director Director

69 Meet the Management 70 WHO WE ARE Arts Center Sherif MohieEldin Director ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR Child & Adolescent Child Programs Section T BA Creative Unit Development Outreach & echnical Unit Arts School Orchestra prominence asoneofhisgenerationsmosttalentedartists. Oman him earned Italy,has composition of style innovative and extensive His Jordan. and Germany, Austria, France, in also and cities Egyptian various of several chamber orchestras. SherifMohieEldin conducted orchestras in was awardedtheState Incentive Award inmusiccomposition. He isfounder he 2009, in and Management, Arts in Scholarship Fulbright the received he 2003, In 1995–2001. Orchestra, Opera Cairo the of Director Managing and Citadel Festival for Music and Song in 1989. He is former Principal Conductor Mohie Eldin has led a prolific career since his debut as Artistic Director of the Sherif 2009. in obtained he which Analysis, Music in Art of Philosophy the de Concertiste in Conducting from Ecole Normale de Paris,andaPhDin in Musicology from the Egyptian Academy of Arts, aDiplome d’Honneur MAan Performance, Horn and Composing in BAs two holds He 2006. since Director of the BA Arts Center. He has been Director of the Damanhour the Opera being to addition in Alexandrina, Bibliotheca the of Orchestra Chamber Unit Unit Fax: +2034820457 Email: [email protected] Eminent conductor andcomposer, SherifMohieEldinisConductorofthe aRTS CENTER (Cont.) Exhibitions Section Exhibitions Section Collections Section Art Projects & Exhibitions Unit Art Collection Programming Art Projects Museums & Permanent T T emporary emporary Unit Unit Unit Art Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head ofProgramming Permanent ExhibitionsSection Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Egypt andItaly. in sculpture of field the in kind their of first the be to considered sculptures, and workshops in Egypt, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and realized public glass the Euromed Youth Programme. Yasmina Heidar hasheldseveral exhibitions of context the in and NGOs development social through exchange cultural of field the in trainer and worker youth a as parallel in worked and demonstrator at theFaculty of Fine Arts, Universityof Alexandria. Previously, shewasa of Fine Arts, Universityof Alexandria. SheiscurrentlyaSculptureLecturer Sculpture Technology, and a PhD in Direct Glass Sculpture, from the Faculty Reem Kassem Fax: +2034820457 Email: [email protected] Yasmina Heidar holds a BSc inGeneral Sculpture, an MScin Glass Head ofMuseums& Mohamed Khamis Unit Head ofBA Orchestra Shadi Abdel-Salam Unit Head ofTechnical Mohamed T Colette Frège Head of Arts Head School Unit Unit Art CollectionsSection Head of Art Projects & aha Gamal Hosni Head ofChild& Adolescent Noha Ragheb Creative Unit Head ofTemporary Exhibitions Section Sherouk T Head of Art Projects Mohamed Samy Unit alaat Deputy Director Y asmina Heidar Head ofTemporary Nancy Mamdouh Amira Elessawi Exhibitions Unit Collection Unit Head of Art Head

71 Meet the Management 72 WHO WE ARE Calligraphy Center Khaled Mohamed Azab Khaled Director ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR Language Unit Research Unit Publishing & Egyptian CALLIGRAPHY CENTER of Archeological Inspectorsbetween1994and2001. Hayat and Afaq newspapersaswellother Arab newspapers,andwasHead books onarcheology. Khaled Azab worked as an editor and correspondent in Al He participatedinseveralpertinentconferencesandhaspublished Fax: +2034820463 Email: [email protected] Khaled Azab holds a PhD in IslamicMonuments from Cairo University. Ahmed Mansour Head ofEgyptian Language Unit (Cont.) Head ofPublishing& Research Unit BiovisionAlexandria Scientific Activities Scientific Activities Azza Ezzat Conference Unit Regional Offices Coordinator Networking Section Unit Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina CSSp health policyresearchanddataanalysis. in the management and planning of funded project, in addition to experience in Throughout heracademic and professionalcareer, shehasgainedexperience developing countries so astomeet the escalating needs ofthe research market. on providinganup-to-datetrainingtoresearchersfromEgyptandother and world, developing the to benefits their and Sciences Life in applications 2005. Herworkfocusesonraisingpublic awareness onthenewesttechnology Brandies University,USA. ShejoinedtheBibliotheca MA, Alexandrina in a secondMaster’s degree in International Health Policy and Management from Health System Management from Senghor University, Alexandria, Egypt and through establishingsustainablenetworksofinternationalcollaboration. author ofanumberpublications. He supportsyoungEgyptian researchers the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and is author/co- and DScfromGeorge Washington University, USA.HeisSeniorMemberof Egypt. Hereceived hisBScfromtheUniversityof Alexandria andhisMSc Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Center for SpecializedStudiesandPrograms (CSSP) Head ofScientific Activities Section Asmaa Soliman Fax: +2034820469 Email: [email protected] Omneya Darwish,apharmacist by training,holdsaMaster’s degreein Fax: +2034820469 Email: [email protected] Mohamed El-Faham is aProfessorofElectrical Engineering at the Arab Head ofBioVisionAlexandria Marwa Elwakil Conference Unit Regional OfficesUnit Head ofNetworking Heba Maram Marwa Abdelrassoul Head ofScientific Activities Unit

Coordinator (HeadofUnit) Mohamed El-Faham Yasmin Maamoun Omneya Darwish Deputy Director Director

73 Meet the Managment 74 WHO WE ARE Manuscript Center &ManuscriptMuseum Mohamed Soliman Deputy Director Dr. YoussefZiedan Director ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR & Research Services Copying &External Microfilm Archive Administration Exchange Unit Microfilm Section Section number ofinternationalconferencesandhasmanyacademic papers. and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Hehas participated in a 2007, hehasbeenteaching an Islamicmanuscriptscourseforundergraduate Islamic Development Bank regarding the Mali Manuscript Collection. Since publishing anddigital preservation. HeisaManuscriptConsultantforthe and preservation techniques. He isalsowell-versed in heritage multimedia enjoys a wide range of experiences in manuscript cataloging, documentation, 1996 and is oneofthe founders ofits Manuscript Center and Museum. He summa cumlaude,fromthe University of Alexandria. Greek and German. Before The novel is currently being translated into seven languages including English, Arabic Fiction Award in association with the Booker Prize Foundation. him into the Arabic literary scene, especially after winning the prestigious al-Nafis’ al-Nafis Ibn Ibn scholar. However, the publication ofhislatest novel; an of as him edition established encyclopedia critical 30-volume medical His grand manuscripts. Islamic and Arabic in over with writer prolific a is 50 publishedbooks,acolumnist, a novelist and awell-knownspecialist He heritage. Arabic of world the in scholar Serpent —anothernovelthatlaunchedhimintotheliterarylimelight. Unit Fax: +2034820461 Email: [email protected] Mohamed SolimanholdsaDoctorate Degree inthe Arabic language, Youssef Ziedan,ofIslamicPhilosophy, Professor isarenowned Fax: +2034820461 Email: [email protected] MANUSCRIPT cENTER Collections Section & mANUSCRIPT (Cont.) Manuscripts Rare Books& Rare Books mUSEUM Specialized Original Section Unit Azazeel, Youssef Ziedan published Monitoring Section Display Section Restoration Unit Museographic Enviromental Chemistry & Restoration Mechanical Section Bibliotheca Alexandrina He joinedthe BA in Azazeel, catapulted Shadow of the

Head ofChemistry&Environmental Head of Administration Head Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Beirut-based Centerfor Arab UnityStudiesin2011. Professor Roshdi Rashed of CNRS, is forthcoming. It will be published by the George Boole’s AnInvestigation of theLawsThought,incollaboration with magazines and refereed academic journals. His Arabic translation and study of theory, Orientalism, Indian religions, contemporary philosophy, etc. in many on translation heritage andthehistoryofreligions.Hepublishedhiswork a computational linguist, he shifted towards the study ofIslamic intellectual in English linguisticsandtranslation studies. After workingforthreeyearsas Manuscripts Section Monitoring Section Tharwat Hendawy Head ofOriginal Hussein Kamal Hossam Taha Fax: +2034820461 Email: [email protected] Ramy Al-Gamal graduated from the University of Alexandria with amajor Section Head ofMechanical Restoration Unit Adel Bassiouny Mohamed Moustafa Head ofMicrofilm Section Head ofRare Books&Specialized Head ofMicrofilm Archive & Research ServicesUnit Head ofMuseographic Cherine Mahmoud Collections Section Sherif Mahrous Mireille Ramsis Display Section Ramy ElGamal Deputy Director External ExchangeUnit Head ofRestoration Head ofCopying& Noha El-Amrawy Ahmed Moussa Gehan Hefela Head ofRare Books Unit Section

75 Meet the Managment 76 WHO WE ARE ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR Intangible Heritage Relations Section Technical Support Tangible Heritage Digital & Audio Digital Documentation Transportations & Development Administration International Multimedia Financial & Information Technology Technology PR Section Training Section Section Section Security Imaging Section Section Section Section Section (Cont.) CultNat Urbanization ofthe 19 Communications Quality Control Graphic Design Transportations Architecture & Eternal Egypt th Development Manuscripts Installations Research & &20 Culturama Personnel Media & Section Section Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit th Century Bibliotheca Alexandrina folkloric heritageandmusicalprogramsatCultNat. the natural heritage program as well as supervisingthe photographic heritage, Marseille III, France. At CultNat, she isin charge ofthe documentation of Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Public Library. such astheIntegrated Care Society, theMubarakPublicLibrary, andtheMaadi of Egypt Project. She is an active board member in a number of organizations Libraries Network. She now manages the Automation of the National Archives Project of Automating Egyptian Libraries and the Development of the Egyptian the implementation of the first Arabic software for Arab libraries, the National of Mediterranean.Heritage. the Herimed Association for Documentation, Preservation and Valorization UNDP and the World Bank on developmental projects. He is President of Committee for theMemoryof World Program,aconsultantforthe in Paris.Hewasamember of theUNESCOInternational Advisory Delegate to UNESCO,andCultural Councilor at the Egyptian Embassy Cairo University. He held the posts of Ambassador and Permanent Center for DocumentationofCultural&NaturalHeritage Fax: +20235392929 Email: [email protected] Hala N. Barakat hasaPhDin Paleoecology from the University of Aix- Fax: +20235392929 Email: [email protected] Eglal Bahgathasinitiated and managedseveralnationalprojectsincluding: Fax: +20235392929 Email: [email protected] at theDepartment Fathi SalehisaProfessorofComputerEngineering, Director (HeadofSector) Fathi Saleh Senior DeputyDirector (CultNat) Hala N.Barakat Deputy Director Eglal Bahgat

77 Meet the Managment 78 WHO WE ARE Yasmine Abdel-Nour Imaging Technology Information Technology Deputy Director for Heritage Section& Head ofIntangible Assistant Director Deputy Director for Mohamed Farouk Ayman Khoury and System Analyst atPacerConsultants(1986–1990). Scanning andDigitization (1990–1993); andInformation System Programmer (1993–1995); ProductionManager at the Canadian Company for Document of Islamic Monuments Documentation at theRITSECCultureware Program the EgyptianCultureInvestmentCompany(1996–1998);ProjectManager at Nile TV ProductionCompany(1998–2000);IT ProductionManagerat Prior tojoining the BA in2000,hewasHeadofthe Animation Department technology, digital archives,andtheproductiondirection of documentaries. University. He has vast experience in the fields of cultural heritage, information as oneoftheprominentpeopleingovernmental technologies in Who is Who. systems and the digital documentation of heritage. Mohamed Farouk islisted display immersive the as such fields; different in researches published has He many national and international projects; such asthe Eternal Egypt project. Archeological Map ofEgyptandCulturama. He alsoparticipated in andmanaged addition to hiscurrentposition,heismanager of severalprograms;suchas The Development Department, and the introduction of the 3D laser scanning. In 2007), the establishment of the Multimedia Department, the Research and His important achievements include the invention of Culturama (patented in his graduationandwasoneofthemainfoundersCultNatinJanuary2000. Cairo University. He has been working in the digital documentation field since Ayman Khoury holdsaBSc inCommunication Engineering from Cairo Mohamed Fax: +20235392929 Email: [email protected] Heritage Section& Fax: +20235392929 Email: [email protected] Assistant Director Head ofTangible Malak Wahba Farouk hasa Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Nabil AbdelAzim Transportations & Assistant Director Head ofSecurity, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head ofFinancial& Tarek El-Hadary PR Section Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofCulturama Head of Administration Head Head of Architecture &Urbanization Head ofMultimedia Mohamed Ismail ShadiEl-Tayar of the19 Rasha Ahmed Section Unit Section Hanaa RefaatGad th &20 th CenturyUnit Karim Mahmoud Head ofGraphic Design Unit Head ofTechnical Support & DevelopmentSection Head ofInternational Mohamed Ali Relations Section Hind Mostafa Head ofTransportations Sanea Amr Unit Iman El-Shabouri Head ofEternal Egypt Unit Head ofDigitaland Audio Head ofInstallations Documentation Section Moataz Mahmoud Head ofQualityControl Sherine El-Shorbagy Saad Youssef Section Communications Unit Head ofMediaand Mai Romouz Unit Head ofManuscriptsUnit Development Section Head ofResearch & Sayed Darwich Mohamed Nabil Mohamed Emara Head ofPersonnel Head ofTraining Sherif Farahat Section Unit

79 Meet the Managment 80 WHO WE ARE Planetarium ScienceCenter Hoda Elmikaty Director ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR Programs &Events Educational Center Planetarium Shows Project Manager Planetarium Family Park & Programs Section (Cairo) Unit Unit cultural committeesandsocieties. as well She isalsoamemberofseveralNGOs Council ofScience(ICSU). Member ofthe Ad hocCommittee on ScienceEducation at theInternational and and Research Technology Scientific of Egyptian Academy the at Council and its Chair in 2008/2009. She is Member of the Culture and Knowledge group, affinity (WIE) Engineering Womenin Egyptian IEEE the of Founder North Africa andMiddleEastNetworkofScience Centers (NAMES); and school childrenin Alexandria. SheisFounderandcurrentPresidentofthe for facility hands-on first the introduced she where PSC the of management Unit during the construction phase of the Library. In 2000, she took over the Monitoring Construction the in team BA the joined She science. of field the in especially empowerment their and women of supporter firm a also is She the general public with special emphasis onschoolanduniversitystudents. to science of values the and method scientific the science, of dissemination from theUniversityofLiverpool, England. Her main interest lies in the of Engineering, University of Alexandria, and an MScinParallel Processing Hoda Elmikaty holds a BSc in Electrical Communication from the Faculty Fax: +2034820464 Email: [email protected] science center Planetarium (Cont.) Education Programs Exhibitions Section Fabrication & Publications Fundraising Educational Design Unit Unit Unit & Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head ofPrograms many certificates from different international organizations in the fieldof the in science andparticipatedinmanyinternationalconferences. organizations international different from certificates many Suzanne Mubarak Family Garden Science Center in Cairo. He hasreceived school studentsaswellgeneral public. He iscurrently responsible forthe and launchedmanyofsciencecommunications programs thatdedicated to the a contributor to theestablishment of the new networkNAMES.Hehascreated fostering newcommunication with otherinternational organizations; and was responsible forsetting up theinfrastructure of thehands-onfacility at theBA; specialist in hands-on exploration, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, he hasbeen and hasrepresentedthePSCinmanyinternationalconferences. supervises the expansion plan of the Center all over Egypt, especially in Cairo, plan oftheCenter, including both interactive and touringexhibitions.He planning the for isresponsible He educational programs andeventsofthePSCsupervisingexhibiting BA. the at center science first of—the was assignedtoprepare the feasibility study for—aswellasthe implementation Alexandria. He first joined the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in December 2002. He Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofPlanetarium Hanaa Hosny & EventsUnit Mohamed Shaaban is anElectronic and Communication Engineer. A Ayman Elsayed holds aBScinElectrical Engineering from the University of Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820464 Email: [email protected] Omar Fikry Section Shows &Programs Unit Head ofPlanetarium Head ofFabrication Mohamed Ibrahim & DesignUnit Reem Sabry Head ofFundraising Nermine Toma Unit Educational Center(Cairo) Deputy Director &Project Manager FamilyPark Mohamed Shaaban Ayman El-Sayed Deputy Director Head ofEducational Publications Unit Maissa Azab

81 Meet the Managment 82 WHO WE ARE Dialogue Forum Heba El-Rafey Director ACADEMIC &CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTOR InfoMall & YouthInfoMall Dialogue Forum Activities Unit Advisors Unit Coordinator Dialogue forum Unit in society. people, as well as focusing on supporting youth-led initiatives and engagement expressed interest in encouraging mutual understanding between cultures and Association Award forInternationalUnderstanding in1991.Shehasan Schools’ International the received She languages. five in converse can and background, having the BA Dialogue Forumin2008.HebaEl-Rafey comes fromamulticultural through a number of capacities until her most recent move as Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in2001.Sincethen,hercareer developed Marketing Department of UnileverEgyptbeforetaking a career change to join working intelecommunications marketing laterworkinginthe in theUK, in MarketingfromtheChartered1998.Shebegan InstituteofMarketing,UK, and Management) from London University, 1995, and an Advanced Certificate Heba El-RafeyholdsaBachelor of degree inEuropeanStudies(Italian Arts Fax: +2034820468 Email: [email protected] (Cont.) lived invariouscountriestheMiddleEastandEurope, Studies center Hellenistic Bibliotheca Alexandrina Shorouk, Rose Al-Youssef, andothers. human rights.SamehFawzywritesregularly for anumberofnewspapers; and democracy governance, good citizenship, dialogue, of fields the in books and the Rule of Law; Stanford University, USA.Hehaswritten a number of From 2006–2008,he was Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development, University. HeisaPhDCandidate inPolitical Sociology atCairo University. Political Sciences fromtheFacultyofEconomics and Political Sciences, Cairo UK; an MA in Public Administration from Cairo University; and a BSc in the UKin2010. history. Herlatest publication is OnceUponaTime inJerusalem;published studies oncomparative literature, postcolonial issues, and Alexandrian modern for Academic Research in 2005. Herpublications include translations and Studies. SaharHamoudawasawardedtheUniversityof Alexandria Award Alexandria. SheisalsoDirectorofthe Alexandria CenterforHellenistic Dean oftheFaculty of Languages and Translation at Pharos University in Alexandria, and former Chairperson oftheEnglishDepartment. She iscurrently Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head of Advisory Committees& Hellenistic StudiesCenter Sameh FawzyholdsanMA inPolitical Development from SussexUniversity, Fax: +2034820468 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820466 Email: [email protected] Sahar Hamouda isProfessor ofEnglish Literature at the University of Special Projects Unit (Head ofSection) Nazek El-Wakeel

Head ofInfoMall&Youth Activities Unit Nairouz Rizk Head ofDialogueForum Shaimaa El-Sherif Unit Inas Abdel-Latif (Head ofUnit) Coordinator Sahar Hamouda Deputy Director Deputy Director Sameh Fawzy Mai El-Hennawy Head of Advisors Head Unit

83 Meet the Managment 84 WHO WE ARE Finance Secretariat Unit FINANCE & ADMINSTRATION SECTOR Document Review Government Records Finance Section Unit Unit Department Finance Supervisors (2) Cashier Section Bibliotheca Alexandrina engineering andmanagementpositionsinEgyptSaudi Arabia. He wasSeniorFieldEngineeratDillingham/ABBSUSA Inc.andheldvarious Field EngineerduringPhaseIandRepresentative during PhaseII. Consortium during the construction phases ofthe Library building; as Chief University inCairo. the threecoursesofOSHA oftheUSDepartment of Labor, atthe American Tourism andMonumentsPolice, Alexandria. He hassuccessfully completed Assistant totheMinisterofInteriorBureau; and HeadofInvestigational Unit, include: DeputyDirector, University of Alexandria Security; Director/ of meritfromvariousEgyptianuniversities.Hispreviousappointments also received several awards from the Minister of Interior as well as certificates arrangements. A holder of President Mubarak’s Medal of Excellence, he has and criminal investigations, and public tourist security and conference security financial operation. efficient and effective an run to him enabled has accounting and budgets local management practices for finance, internal audits, project accounting, companies in the Gulf States and Egypt. His experience in foreign and Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofFinancialSecretariat Finance & Administration Sector Alaa Abdel-Aziz Kassem Alaa Abdel-Aziz Tarek Yassin is a civil engineer who workedwith the Snøhetta/Hamza Sherif Ammar has extensive experience in police and disciplinary works, legal Yehia MansourwasaformerContract Administrator for international Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Unit Deputy HeadofSector Deputy HeadofSector Yehia Mansour Head ofSector Sherif Ammar Tarek Yassin

85 Meet the Managment 86 WHO WE ARE Finance Department Mohamed Metwalli Deputy Director Mohsen Shafie Director Ministry ofFinance.HehasbeenamembertheBA teamsince1996. Ministry of Supply, and Ministry of Health & Financial Inspection at the including: Alexandria University, landingauthorities,theMinistryofHousing, held variouspositionsindifferent authorities and governmental organizations, Finance. A graduateoftheFaculty ofCommerce, Alexandria University, hehas systems, andcontrollingallbankingactivities. operating andcapital budgets, implementing the organization’scosting Alexandrina. Among his chief responsibilities are preparing the annual for twentyyearsinSaudi Arabia andEgypt before joining the Bibliotheca Mohsen Shafie was a Financial Manager at EECC (Mitsushita) and Emedic and (Mitsushita) EECC at Manager Financial a was Shafie Mohsen Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Mohamed Metwalliisageneralmanagerofaccounting,Ministry Fax: +2034820451 Email: [email protected] Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofCashierSection Head ofGovernment Mahmoud Askar Finance Section Ahmed Gaber Supervisor (HeadofUnit) Mohamed El-Halwani Head ofDocument Venus Mustafa Review Unit Supervisor (HeadofUnit) Head ofRecords Unit Hadeer Hosny Gamal Amar

87 Meet the Managment 88 WHO WE ARE FINANCE & ADMINSTRATION SECTOR (Cont.) Evaluation Unit Recruitment & Records Section Monitoring & Recruitment & Transfer Unit Follow-Up Training Records Unit Unit Unit department Personnel

Benefits &Payroll Services Unit Benefits Unit Supervisor Section Bibliotheca Alexandrina branding” inthecontextofBibliotheca Alexandrina. marketing and employee’s behavioroncustomersatisfaction and organization management and iscurrently working onaPhDthesis“The effect of internal financial and marketing sales, management, in experience extensive has He Distribution Company andbeforeabankeratthe Arab International Bank. Research BranchattheInformationSystemsInstitute. Systems Branchatthe Alexandria Military Enlistment Zone, andtheMilitary Information Systems Branch at the Egyptian Naval Forces, the Information the Computer Branch attheMilitary Hospital of Alexandria, the Financial administration, security and information systems. Heisthe former Headof Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Supervisor ofBenefitsUnit Head ofFollow-UpUnit Personnel Department Alaa El-Shinnawi is a retired colonel with extensive experience in Fax: +2034820467 Email: [email protected] ofOrascom Manager theGeneral formerly was El-Nahas Tawfik Fax: +2034820467 Email: [email protected] Shaimaa El-Deeb Rania Nassar (Head ofUnit) Head ofTraining Unit Head ofServicesUnit Marwa El-Dafrawy Violette Phillipe Head ofRecruitment and Records Section and EvaluationUnit Head ofMonitoring Sara Elmekkawy Marwa Wagdy Head ofRecords Unit Abeer Magdy Tawfik El-Nahas Alaa El-Shinnawi Deputy Director Head ofRecruitment Director and Transfer Unit Iman Wahdan

89 Meet the Managment 90 WHO WE ARE Administration Department Mohamed El-Sammak Custom Clearance Custom Clearance Purchasing & Purchasing & Purchasing Section Unit Unit FINANCE & ADMINSTRATION SECTOR (Cont.) Director administration, leadership,education,andpublicrelations. Armed Forcesandretired as aColonel in 1994. Hehasextensive experience in Department at theParadise Inn,MontazahPalace. In 1973,hejoinedthe the BA, hewasDeputy Director ofthe Security and Administrative Affairs supervised thearrangements of all events heldbytheBA.Priortojoining Fax: +2034820447 Email: [email protected] Mohamed El-Sammak has been a member of the BA since April 1997 and Registry & Archive Registry Transportation Transportation Sales Unit Travel & Section Section Travel Sales Unit Unit Unit administration department Distribution &Book Stores &Inventory Inventory Control Control Section Administrative Internal Buffet Reception Unit Services Unit Fairs Unit General Section Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report technical andadministrativeexpertise. the Graphics Section, where sheacquired many skills, inaddition to much and forthefollowing5yearsuptohermostrecent post, wasHeadof Egyptian military diplomat mission there. She returned to the BA in 2005, the sameyear, sheaccompanied herhusbandtoFrancebecomepartofthe which wasthenucleusforestablishingBA ExhibitionsUnitin2003.In exhibitions, specialization; of field her in work to 2002 BAin the to returned specialized diploma in Outdoor Sculpture from the University of Cairo. She Alexandria. She started her career at the BA in 1998, then left to obtain a Head ofSalesSection Head ofRegistryand Maha El-Karimy Fax: +2034820447 Email: [email protected] Mayada Wassef isa graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Archive Unit Ingy Gad Custom ClearanceSection Inventory Control Section Head ofPurchasing and Mohammed Mubarak Omneya Abdel-Tawab Transportation Section Head ofStores and Head ofTravel and Rehab Mito Head ofInventory Purchasing Unit Hanaa Mostafa Yasser Youssef Head ofTravel Control Unit Jihan Amr Head of Unit Head ofPurchasing and Custom ClearanceUnit Mayada Wassef Deputy Director Head ofTransportation Hassan Ragab Ramadan Ahmed Unit

91 Meet the Managment 92 WHO WE ARE Internal SecurityDepartment Mahmoud Shady Deputy Director Deputy Director Nagi Anas FINANCE & ADMINSTRATION SECTOR (Cont.) Security Section External Areas firefighting. Booz Allen Hamilton certificates in industrial safety, first aid, and shore-based Deputy Head of the Egyptian Navy Fleet Training Command. He wasawarded Warfare Branch; DeputyHeadoftheEgyptianNavy Training Department; and His previousappointments include Head ofthe Egyptian Navy Electronic maintenance of electronic warfare andradar systems onboardmarine units. the Military Technical Collegein1980.Hehasextensiveexperiencethe recognition of his relentless fight against terrorism in El-Minia, hewas OSHA Certificatein2006. inEl-Minia, terrorism against repeatedly honored by the Egyptian Minister of Interior. Hewasawarded the fight relentless his of recognition his appointment at the InternalSecurityDepartmentoftheBA in 2001.In Fax: +2034820459 Email: [email protected] Mahmoud Shady;aretired Navy Engineer Commodore, graduated from Fax: +2034820459 Email: [email protected] Nagi Anas workedinhomicide investigation since hisgraduation until Internal Department security Public SafetyUnit Coordinators (8) Public Safety Section Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofPublic Safety Unit Mahmoud Abdel Salam Mahmoud Abdel Head ofExternal Areas Tamer El-Awwa Security Section Tamer Mohamed Mohamed Eid (Head ofUnit) (Head ofUnit) (Head ofUnit) Wael Shams Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator (HeadofUnit) Mahmoud Nekheila Coordinator (HeadofUnit) YasserEl-Sayed Abdallah Coordinator (HeadofUnit) Mohamed Abdel-Fattah Mohamed Hashem Salah El-Din Thabet Salah Head ofPublicSafety (Head ofUnit) (Head ofUnit) Ihab Fahmi Coordinator Coordinator Section

93 Meet the Managment 94 WHO WE ARE Deputy Director for Engineering Department In-House Projects Gasser Shalabi Architecture Unit Project Manager Architectural & HSE Specialist Audio-Visual Landscaping Civil Section HK &PC Civil Unit FINANCE & ADMINSTRATION SECTOR (Cont.) Section Section Section participated as Construction Manager in many overseas multinational projects. multilingual, withvariouspostgraduatestudiesinprojectmanagement.He Fax: +2034820455 Email: [email protected] Gasser Shalabi is a Certified Consultant Engineer (KSE), Kuwait. He is He Kuwait. (KSE), Engineer Consultant Certified a is Shalabi Gasser Material Control Failure Analysis MonitoringUnit SchedulingUnit Planning & Condition Integrity Section Section WCC Unit Unit Engineering Department Carpentry & WoodCarpentry Firefighting Unit Fabrication Unit Quality Control Interior Design Chemical Unit Plumbing & Mechanical Section Unit Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Assistant DeputyDirector Material Acquisition Security Systems Purchasing Unit Sherine El-Sawy (Head ofSection) (Engineering) Low Current Control Unit Power Unit Supervisor Unit Unit was assignedasDeputyDirectorforInternal Audit. consultant fortheDirectorofBibliotheca Alexandrina andinOctober 2004 the Central Auditing Organization. Between 2003 and2004,heworkedasa Alexandria in 1983,In 1985hewasFinancial and Administrative Auditor for International Corporation.HeisamemberoftheSocietyNavalEngineers. from ITT International Corporationin1995,andagain2002fromStarwood hotel inLuxor, andforthe Sheratonhotelitself.Hereceived a President Award Consultant Engineer, and was Director of Engineering for the Sheraton floating Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University. Hejoined civil companies as a Engineer. J.V. during the construction phase of the BA building as Senior Electromechanical the Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman&Co.).Heworkedwith AC/BB phases oftheBibliotheca Alexandrina with AC/BB J.V. the Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman&Co.).Hejoinedtheconstruction Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Email: [email protected] Mohamed MansourgraduatedfromtheFacultyofLaw, Universityof Fax: +2034820455 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820455 Email: [email protected] Mohamed Attwa isanElectro-MechanicalEngineer. Hegraduatedfromthe Hassan RihanisaControlEngineer. HeisformerConstructionManagerat Fax: +2034820455 Email: [email protected] Talaat Badawyisanelectricalengineer, formerlySeniorElectricalEngineerat Deputy Director forOperation Deputy Director forPlanning and DecisionSupport Deputy Director for Mohamed Mansour Deputy Director and Maintenance Mohamed Attwa Talaat Badawy Hassan Rihan Services

95 Meet the Managment 96 WHO WE ARE Head ofIntegritySection Lewaa El-DinHegazy (Head ofSection) Head ofWCCSection Head of Audio-VisualHead Walid Zakaria HSE Specialist Farouk Hassan Samah Ragheb Section Eslam Abdel-Mohsen Head ofCondition and SchedulingUnit Monitoring Unit Head ofPlanning Head ofLandscaping Head of ArchitecturalHead Eman Wahba Ahmed Khamis and CivilSection Khaled Nofal Section Head ofMaterialControl Unit Head ofFailure Analysis Unit Ehab Mahmoud Head ofHK& Shahira Allam Eid Zeidan- PC Section Head ofCivilUnit Atef Milad Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head of ArchitectureHead Mohamed Nabil (Head ofSection) Ahmed Eladawi Project Manager Unit

Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Head ofInteriorDesignUnit Head ofLowCurrent Unit Mahmoud Abdel-Hameed Hesham Abdel-Hameed Supervisor (HeadofUnit) Head ofMechanicalSection Faten Marzeban Mohammed Farrag Head ofPlumbingandFirefighting Unit Head ofSecuritySystems Head ofCarpentryand Wood FabricationUnit Mohamed El-Sabbagh Hanaa El-Sharbash Head ofPowerUnit Rasha Refaat Control Unit Saeed Essa Head ofMaterial Acquisition Abd ElKader Mohammed Amal Ramadan Ahmed Amal Mohamed El-Ghayesh Head ofChemicalUnit Head ofPurchasing Unit Quality Control Unit (Head ofUnit) Sarah Hany (Engineering) Unit

97 Meet the Managment 98 WHO WE ARE Information &Communication Technology (ICT) Sector Information &communcation technology (ict) Head ofSector Magdy Nagi Security Engineer Technical Project Communications Technical Support Administration Documentation Senior System Coordinator Operation & System Leader Section Unit Unit Unit organizations. Heisauthor/co-authorofover80scientificpapers. scientific other several as well as Society, Computer IEEE the and ACM implementation of automation projects. Magdy Nagi is a Member of the and/or design the and informatics of field the in entities international and systems anddatabasesystems.Heisaconsultant to anumberofnational Consultant to itsComputer Center. Hisresearch interests are in operating from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he later lectured and was Faculty of Engineering, University of Alexandria. He obtained his PhD Fax: +2034820405 Email: [email protected] Magdy NagiisaProfessorinthe Computer Science Department, SECTOR department ict

Project Managers(5) Development Section Technical Services Software &System BA RemoteSites Multimedia Unit Support Unit Conference & Web Graphics Unit-ICT Training Unit Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina of computerscienceandengineering. 42 publications in peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences in the field cultural committees andsocieties. Noha Adly isauthor/co-author of more than and scientific various as and well IEEE as the ACM, of Member a is She UK. Associate, then Visiting Researcher at the AT&T Research Lab, Cambridge, of Information Science (ISIS) Research Center at the BA. ShewasResearch Deputy HeadoftheICT Sector, sheisDirectoroftheInternationalSchool Computer Science from Cambridge University. Inaddition to herposition as Faculty ofEngineering,University Alexandria. SheobtainedherPhDin Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Department. Section in2004;untilhismostrecentpositionasDeputyDirectoroftheICT the Technical Support Unitin2003;HeadofOperationand Technical Support Senior System Administrator in2001,movingontothepositionofHead as a Technical Support Engineer atMantracEgypt.HejoinedtheBA asa Academy for Science, Technology andMarine Transport. Hestarted his career Information &Communication Technology (ICT)Department Fax: +2034820405 Email: [email protected] Noha Adly isaProfessorintheComputerandSystem EngineeringDepartment, Fax: +2034820405 Email: [email protected] Youssef SalahholdsaBScinComputerEngineering from the Arab Engineer (HeadofUnit) Senior SystemSecurity Islam Morsi Technical SupportSection Head ofOperation& Mohamed Zaghloul Omneya Samy Head ofUnit Head ofDocumentation System Administration Unit System Administration Mariam Nagui Mohamed ElLotf Unit (Head ofUnit) Deputy HeadofSector Technical Project Leader WaelSalah Abdel-Aziz Deputy Director (Head ofUnit) Noha Adly Jasmine Metwally Youssef Salah (Head ofUnit) Coordinator

99 Meet the Managment 100 WHO WE ARE Communications Unit System Development Head ofSoftware & Youssef Mikhail Ahmed Borhan Head of Section Head ofBA RemoteSites Ahmed Abdel-Wahed Project Manager Support Unit Ahmed Samir (Head ofUnit) Head ofConference & MultimediaUnit Bassem El-Sayed Project Manager Amira Ezzat (Head ofUnit) Shaimaa Mohamed Shaimaa Basma El-Sheikh Head ofTraining Sara El-Shobaky Project Manager Project Manager (Head ofUnit) (Head ofUnit) Unit-ICT Bibliotheca Alexandrina Head ofTechnical Services Mohamed Abdel-Latif Project Manager Hani Sawiress (Head ofUnit) Graphics Unit Samar Farag Head ofWeb Unit Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report & Processing Unit Head ofScanning Hani El-Sawy Information &communcation technology Ramy Rouchdi Assurance Unit-ISIS Head ofDigital Head ofOCRUnit Special Projects Processing Unit Administration Lab Section Dalia Elnakieb Scanning & Digital Lab Unit-ISIS Section Quality Unit Head of Administration Head SECTOR (Cont.) Sameh Ghazal Ahmed HassanBarghout Unit Department Project Manager (Head ofUnit) isis

Head ofSpecialProjects Tarek Elleithy Project Managers(2) Unit –ISIS Senior Specialist Youssef ElDakar Project Manager OCR Unit (Head ofunit) Head ofQuality Assurance Mohamed El-Shamy Unit –ISIS Sameh El-Ansary Senior Specialist (Head ofUnit)

101 Meet the Managment 102 WHO WE ARE Communication & Coordination & Follow UpUnit Protocol Unit public relations & international department contacts External Relations SECTOR

Publications Unit Exhibitions & Press Center Editing Unit Unit Department Bibliotheca Alexandrina media Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Deputy HeadofSector External RelationsSector Hagar Islambouly Head ofSector Sherif Riad Organization. SherifRiadholdsaPhDinPoliticalSciences. the Egyptian American Bank.HewasalsoMemberoftheCentral Auditing Corporate Relations Director, Barclays Bank; and Credit and Marketing Manager, including CreditandMarketingDirectorfortheMENA Region,Citibank; for the Presidency Protocol. Throughout his career, he heldnumerous posts, HE President Hosni Mubarak,wherehewasamember of theteam responsible international peaceandunderstanding. and forheroutstandingleadership as awomanwhohasfurthered thecausesof awarded toherforbeingapeace-maker and anadvocate for theenvironment, ly holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Wilson College, USA; Germany andfromtheKingofSpain,respectively. Ambassador Islambou- Fax: +2034820449 Email: [email protected] Sherif Riad was the Chamberlain of the Egyptian Presidency at the office of Fax: +2034820456 Email: [email protected] Grand CruzandtheLazoDeDamafromPresidentofRepublic of security and economic cooperation). She received the OrdersofCivil Merit tem, regional organizations, and the Middle East Process (regional peace, Relations. Her career included multilateral diplomacy within the UN sys- Francisco. She iscurrently a member of the Egyptian Council on Foreign San in based Region Pacific WesternUS the for General Consul Egypt’s Ambassador toSouth Africa, Botswanaandthe KingdomofLesotho,and tional Economic Relations and International Cooperation. She wasEgypt’s Assistant MinisterofForeign Affairs forthe Americas; and forInterna- has servedinnumerouspositionsEgypt’sForeign Ministry, including Political Sciences, University ofCairo. A career diplomat since 1974,she Ambassador Islambouly is agraduate of the Faculty of Economics and Hanan El-Rakkad (Head ofUnit) Coordinator

103 Meet the Managment 104 WHO WE ARE organizations. CEOSS Alexandria Committee for theDialogueofCultures,andseveralother Member of the Egyptian Association for Friendsofthe BA, Member of the in Egypt, then as a translator at the Iraqi Ministry of Planning. She is Founding from theUniversityof Alexandria. She beganhercareer as anEnglishteacher of Archeological Inspectorsbetween1994and2001. Hayat and Afaq newspapersaswellother Arab newspapers,andwasHead books onarcheology. Khaled Azab worked as an editor and correspondent in Al He participatedinseveralpertinentconferencesandhaspublished Public Relations&InternationalContactsDepartment Media Department Head ofEditingUnit Ayman ElSherbiny Fax: +2034820449 Email: [email protected] Mona ElNasharholdsaBA degreeinEnglish Language and Literature Fax: +2034820463 Email: [email protected] Khaled Azab holds a PhD in IslamicMonuments from Cairo University. Head ofPress CenterUnit Mohamed Motosh Head ofCommunication and Protocol Unit Sherif Elaish Bibliotheca Alexandrina Khaled Mohamed Azab Khaled Deputy Director Head ofExhibitions& Director Mona ElNashar Publications Unit Mona Helmy Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Studio Department Dina Abou Elela Dina Abou Director External Relations SECTOR (Cont.) Coordinator Operational Section Development andPopulation Activities, Washington DC,USA. (BBC) Academy, theEgyptian Radio and Television Union, andtheCentre for courses inveryprominentinstitutes;suchastheBritishBroadcastingCorporation Washington DC.Sheparticipated inmanyacademic and managerial training Project, sponsored bythe Center for Development and Population Activities, and ResearchInstitute(ITRFP)Coordinatorofthe Women Development interviews. She wasalso Executive Director of the Family Planning Training Channel 1,aswellBA documentaries,narrativesandspecialaudiovisual is bestshownatthe“Libraryof Alexandria” weeklytelevisionprogramon directing a numberofcultural television programs. Hermultimedia expertise Television Union,Channel5, where she anchored, presented and assisted in Studio Section. Prior tojoining the BA,sheworkedat the Egyptian Radio and (AAST). Shejoinedthe Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in 2007 asHeadofthe currently an MBA candidate at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology Administration fromtheUniversityof Alexandria, FacultyofCommerce,andis Fax: +2034820446 Email: [email protected] Dina Abou Elela obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree inBusiness Department studio HeadofOperational Mohamed Zayed Section Production Section (Head ofUnit) Coordinator Mona Nasr

105 Meet the Managment 106 WHO WE ARE External Relations SECTOR (Cont.) Complaints Unit Administration & Programs Section Hall Preparation Coordination & Follow UpUnit Suggestions & Marketing Reception Section Unit Unit visits &Halls Department French Tours Arabic Tours Supervisor Unit Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report Visits &HallsDepartment Deputy Director Deputy Director Mohammed Allam Sherine Gaafar Yasmine Samir Director Deputy Directorofthe Visits andHallsDepartment, in 2010. Yasmine Samir the supervisorof Tours Unit,thenHeadofthe Tours Section and ultimately, as atourguide for English and Arabic regular and VIP tours.Shelater became of boardsdifferent sportscommitteesin Africa andEgypt. of Arts, GreekandRoman Archeology Department.Sheispresidentandmember acquired herBachelorof Arts degreefromtheUniversity of Alexandria, Faculty he assumedhismostrecentpost. in hiscareer at theBA Conference Center and was promoted several timestill OrganizationGeneral ofthe achievedprogress He Alexandria Library(GOAL). Library andInformationScienceDepartment. her Bachelorof Arts degreefromUniversity of Alexandria, Faculty of Arts, ultimately, Directorofthe Visits Department, in 2002.SherineGaafarreceived relations and customerservicesinParis,became the supervisor, and 1995 asacataloger forFrenchandSpanishbooks.Sheistrained inpublic He hasbeen a member of the BA since 1992, whenhe started working at the Yasmine Samir began hercareer with theBibliotheca Alexandrina in 2002 Fax: +2034820458 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820458 Email: [email protected] Fax: +2034820458 Email: [email protected] Sherine Gaafarbeganhercareer withtheBibliotheca Alexandrina since Mohammed Allam graduated from the Faculty of Media, Cairo University.

107 Meet the Managment 108 WHO WE ARE Headof Administration Head of Arabic Tours Mohamed Shaaban Head ofReception (Head ofSection) Norhan Mostafa & Programs Unit Radwa El-Amir Section Unit Head ofMarketingUnit Head ofHallPrepara- Dalia El-Kabany Marwa Mahdy Head ofFrench Ahmed Yassin Tours Unit tion Unit Suggestions &Complaints Head ofCoordination Yasmine Ramadan Rehab SabryZekry & FollowUpUnit Rehab Youssif (Head ofUnit) Supervisor Unit Bibliotheca Alexandrina Annual Report July2009-June2010Annual Report CULTNAT Resource DevelopmentUnit Special Project General Counsel Consultants totheBA Sectors/Centers/Departments Special Advisors totheBA Director E Ibrahim Ghanem Mohamed KamalEldin Mohamed Omara Adel Azab Salah Soliman Abd ElHalimNurEldin Salah ElGawhary Mohsen Youssef Aly Maher Maissa Moustafa Irina Springuel Reem Bahgat Isis Gabrawy Mohamed Fekry Ahmed ElHadari Feisal Abd ElHalim Maksimos Elantony Samiha Hanna mad Abo Ghazy mad Abo Library Sector Institute for PeaceStudies Internal Security Dialogue Forum Arts Center Shadia ElSoussi Dalia Hamada Heba Sharobeem Mona Hagag Moustafa Elabbadi Azza Madian Elhady Layla Abd Azza ElKholy Magdy Madkour Maha Moaz Mohamed Noaman Emad Siyam Kadry Hefny Rageh Daoud Hussein El-Shaboury Mostafa El-Razaz Samir Farid Mahmoud Abodoma

109 Consultants & Special Advisors