Following consultation with the co-presidents of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Spanish Presidency of the EU, it has been confirmed that the next Anna Lindh Board of Governors meeting will take place on 11 May 2010 in Alexandria. The Board, which is comprised of the 43 senior officials of the Union for the Mediterranean, discussed the proposal during its meeting at the Anna Lindh Forum 2010, and it will be the first time the body gathers in Alexandria since the Foundation’s launch in 2005.

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Until the 1st of July 2010, publishing houses and non-governmental organizations involved in producing story books for children in Arabic language are invited to nominate titles to be included in the second edition of the ‘One Hundred and One Books Exhibition’.

With the aim of providing a broad audience of children with access to quality stories written in Arabic, local exhibitions featuring the selected books, will also be organized across the Region in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.

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