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President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated on Sunday the Egyptian Book Library "Dar Al-Kotob" after 6-year long development process cost about LE 85 million mostly raised from Egyptian and Arab donations. Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni told President and Mrs. Mubarak that the time-honored Library contains about 100 million documents, 110,000 manuscripts, 5000 old maps and 10,000 papyruses. Meantime, Minister Farouk Hosni accentuated Mrs Mubarak's efforts to renovate Dar Al-Kotob's old building in Bab Al-Khalq and for protecting the country's cultural heritage.

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*ahem*

Nothing there but a red x...

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Africa pinglist ping.

[Fred Nerks]

...and they date back to the golden years of the ancient Arab and Islamic civilizations, he said.

...when the arabs were slaughtering the indigenous peoples and stealing everything that belonged to them...just as they are doing now in Africa and plan to do to the rest of the world?

That golden age?