Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Champion of Alexandria’s Resurrected Library, Dies, Library Journal, March 2017

Extract:

"It was President Richard M. Nixon who blew wind into the sails of Professor Abbadi’s ambitious proposal. When Nixon visited Egypt in 1974, he and President Anwar el-Sadat rode by train to Alexandria’s ancient ruins to observe their faded grandeur. When Nixon asked about the ancient library’s location and history, no one in the Egyptian entourage had an answer.That night, the rector of the University of Alexandria called the professor and asked him to prepare a memo about the Great Library’s rise and fall."   source : Library Journal

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