Today’s Alexandria, home to 6 million people and an illustrious past, is a shabby beehive of a city, but since 2002 it has had a new library ... belongs to the Cavafy Museum, a humble apartment ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The Greek community of Alexandria long considered itself one of the main actors in the building of Modern Egypt. Today there are fewer than 1,000 Greeks living in the city, but those who remain still ...