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Holi da y Rul es
لﺎﻘﻤﻟا ناﻮﻨﻋ

ﻒﻟﺆﻤﻟا تﺎﻧﺎﻴﺑ

Meeting Dr. Marwa El Sahn, Director of the Center

for Francophone Activities at the Bibliotheca

Alexandrina

groups, preserving the priority of the francophones in
Alexandria. The center was and still offers activities that are
Edited and written by predominantly interactive, i.e. workshops, trainings,
conferences and lectures, as it holds one or two major
Mirna Ossama conferences and lectures every year, but it remains keen to take
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the
to
Coordinated by : applicants of a practice number with the which requires the
language,
its
attendance
of
small
participation
Jozeph George members in Workshops and trainings so that they can develop
the language in different subjects. The center also organizes ten
types of different activities and festivals, including the Crafts
Alexandria : Mirna Ossama and Jozeph George
Festival that takes place in October of every year, which
defines handicrafts in Egypt or in any of the Francophone
This month witnesses an interview in which we meet the
countries, in which a Francophone country is hosted as a guest
Director of the Center for Francophone Activities at the Libr ary
of honor. A number of craftsmen in wood, chocolate, and
of Alexandria, Dr. Marwa El-Sahn, who, in turn, introduced the
others, such as Cote d'Ivoire, who are distinguished with cocoa,
center, its activities and so on. It is a center or a departme nt of
come in it, and they stay in the outdoor yard of the library in
the communication and media sector within the library, wh ich
tents that are set up for five days. School students, whose
means that it is an integral part of it.
number increased from 500 students in the first year to 2000
The implementation of the idea began on May 23, 2013, and the
students recently, come to watch the craftsmen and learn the
aim was to revive the French language for some and encourag e
workmanship and talk with them in French, which achieves a
the others to use it through the activities carried out by the center
kind of cultural, professional and artisanal exchange between
in addition to creating means of cooperation or communicatio n
the two countries. It also provides students with respect for the
with Francophone countries, i.e. the French-speaking countries.
various crafts especially the handicrafts, as the student sees the
amount of effort expended in every work that the craftsmen do.
In the beginning, the set plan was to work on three levels,
In addition to educational workshops in various fields such as
starting from the same region, moving to all the governora tes of
translation, manuscripts, arts, technology, etc., all of them in
Egypt, reaching other countries, and indeed, the center, at t he
French. From which we mention the photography workshop
beginning of the matter and until a full year after its
that began inside the library, but it was developed so that each
establishment, was carrying out many activities at the level o f
year has a specific topic and a specific place in which
Alexandria Governorate, but with Expansion activities, it has
photography is carried out such as museums and gardens, and
begun to reach other governorates to serve schools and
this was done in cooperation with Alexandria Studies Center.
universities students, researchers and a general audience of fans
We find that Dr. Marwa EL Sahn is always keen on not
of the French language, in general, and from different age
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