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Film, Video Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books

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About this Item

Title

  • Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books

Summary

  • Author Karen Leggett Abouraya shares her book. "Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books," with elementary students from the District of Columbia. The story takes place during the Arab Spring of 2011 where young people take the lead in helping to save the famous Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. Karen's presentation is in English, while her husband, Tharwat Abouraya, reads passages in his native language of Arabic.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-04-09.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education
  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Karen Leggett Abouraya.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-04-09.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Publishers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689373

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-09, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689373/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2014) Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-09. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689373/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-09, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689373/>.