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Culture, Religion and Value Systems

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27 October 2009
Lecture by Prof. Bengt Knutsson: The Historical Relations between the Vikings and the Arabs

Organized, Sponsored and Hosted by: Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)

8-10 September 2009
World Value Survey Meeting

Organized and Sponsored by: World Value Survey (WVS), Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)
Hosted by: Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)

1 - 10 February 2009
The 6th Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups

Organized by: International Association for Creation & Training (IACT)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Co-Hosted and Co- Sponsored by: Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)

9-14 November 2008
Understanding the Swedish Model
A study programme in co-operation with the Swedish Muslim Association for Adult Education, Ibn Rushd/ SENSUS.

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.