Book Launch Next Tuesday: The Library of Alexandria: The World's First Intelligence
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The BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies and the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex Med) are organizing an event to launch the book The Library of Alexandria: The World's First Intelligence, (La Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie: la Première Intelligence du Monde), by French author Claudine Le Tourneur D’Ison.
The event will be moderated by Dr. Shaimaa El-Sherif, Senior Research Specialist at the BA, and will include a discussion with the author on Tuesday, 10 February 2026, at 3:00 pm, at the BA Conference Center - Small Theater.
The book offers an in-depth reading of the fate of the most famous legendary library in history, describing it as a living experiment in the transfer of knowledge. It treats the Library of Alexandria as the first network of human intelligence and a comprehensive information system where knowledge met power and memory.