http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Eqypt Posts tagged with 'Eqypt' at MetaFilter. Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:21:49 -0800 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:21:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/16771/ <a href="http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alexandria_new/">The Ancient Library Of Alexandria:</a> Its long-awaited re-opening has been <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52028,00.html">postponed</a>, supposedly because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So it seems the age-old dream of historians and poets everywhere(<b>Jorge Luís Borges</b> comes to mind)will have to wait a bit longer... I wonder, though, if Egypt's ever-stricter censorship laws and practices will ever be compatible with a true, universal library such as, by most accounts, the original Alexandria Library was.[<small>Via <b>Nutcote</b></small>] tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.16771 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:21:49 -0800 Alexandria brokenlink Eqypt history Library rebuilt reopening Wired WorldWonder MiguelCardoso