1-The exterior of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; 2-Architect Mohamed Awad next to the statue of Alexander the Great; 3-Queen Sofia of Spain (centre) visiting the Alexandrian school, the EGC, that she had attended as a little girl; 4-The queen, to her left Headmistress In'am Defrawi, and to her right the acting president of the school's alumnae association Sherifa Saqr; 5-Macedonian folk dancers; 6-Macedonian folk dancers; 7-The library's interior; 8-A display from the "Imagining the Book" exhibit held earlier this month at the library; 9-Folkloric dancers at the library opening; 10-A book by Ptolemy exhibited at the same museum photos: Antoune Albert, Sherief Sonbol, Ahmed Badawi and Nesmahar Sayed