Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement | Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books
The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November, 2003 to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English, on varieties of literary and geographic memory, at the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the complete text of the lecture - and the full text is at the link above.

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