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Culture, Religion and Value Systems

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31 March 2010
The Mediterranean and the Dialogue of Cultures
Mediterranean cultures are at the center of the Ancient and Modern World.The Mediterranean and the Dialogue of Cultures. North and South shores were the carriers of Greaco-Roman and Arab-Islamic cultures. Western and Eastern shores were the carriers of Ancient Asian and modern European cultures.

16 March 2010
Photo Exhibition (Journalistic Photography)
An exhibition on the history of Alexandria followed by two lectures on "The history of Journalistic photography in Alexandria" and "The history of Photography in Alexandria".

9 March 2010
Climate Change and its Effect on Egypt
This is a youth initiative and it is the first lecture of a series of four lectures. The project started in Alexandria, Egypt in 2007 with the motivation of changing people's habits and making a connection between youth and policymakers to prevent what we-as Egyptians-will suffer from as a result of climate change.

1-10 February 2010
The 7th Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups
The Forum has always aimed at achieving an interdisciplinary approach in which creativity, education, dialogue, knowledge, publications, translation and building joint projects are blended together.

27 October 2009
Lecture by Prof. Bengt Knutsson: The Historical Relations between the Vikings and the Arabs
Bengt Knutsson is a Swedish orientalist. He has worked both within the academic and the international spheres. Given full professorial authorization in Semitic languages in 1975 (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and so forth) he has been active at the universities in Lund, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

8-10 September 2009
World Value Survey Meeting
The objectives of the workshop is to discuss and coordinate the 2010 World Values Survey for the MENA-region.

1-10 February 2009
The 6th Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups
After five editions (from 2004 to 2008), the Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups (Europe- Mediterranean) is still going on, but with a new aura in which transformation in quality and integration between its various programs are highlighted.

9-14 November 2008
Understanding the Other: Between Egyptian and Swedish Models
This project started since June 2006 and a Swedish Delegation from the Ibn Rushd Association visited Egypt in January 2007.

20-21 October 2008
The 6th Meeting of the Mediterranean Museum Cooperation "Medmus"
In October 2002, twelve museum directors from around the Mediterranean and Sweden, all of them specializing in Mediterranean antiquities, gathered at the Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex), where they formed a Euro-Mediterranean network "MedMus" and they have held annual meetings since then.

24-27 June 2008
Colloquium with Female Poets
A first-ever colloquium with female poets from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Scandinavian countries, who will read and criticize each other’s works.

14-17 April 2008
Experiences from Conducting the World Values Survey (WVS)
The World Values Survey (WVS), is the most comprehensive comparative study of values ever carried out. Data from the WVS offer a unique opportunity to compare the value systems in different Islamic countries as well as the similaritites and differences between value orientations in a number of countries from different parts of the major religious and cultural traditions in the world.

1-10 February 2008
The 5th Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups
The Creative Forum is a meeting point for groups that work apart from official, governmental cultural institutions, out a different artistic and socio-political formula.

13-14 November 2007
Shari’ah and Constitutional Law
In 2005, the Swedish Institute in Alexandria initiated a series of academic seminars under the heading “Legal Traditions of the World”.

20-23 May 2007
Children's Books
A Seminar for publishers of children’s books. Participants are publishers, government ‎representatives and distributors of children books from Sweden, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, ‎Palestine and Syria.‎‎

1-10 February 2007
The 4th Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups
The Creative Forum is a meeting point for groups that work apart from official and governmental cultural institutions.