About Us
IAPM Board
- Board Members
- Ahmed MANSOUR
- Bulaq Press Exhibition, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
- Ahmed Mansour, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Writing and Scripts Center. He is an Egyptologist by study, researcher in the history of Arabic printing and in the history of writing by work and research. He has got his PhD from Alexandria University. In 2005, he publishd The Bulaq Press monograph which relates the history of Egypt's first government-owned printing house for which they were awarded the Incentive State Award in Social Science in 2008. He was also the recipient, in 2006, of an award from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development for the best translated book form French into Arabic histoire de l'écriture de l'idéogramme au multimédia. In 2008, He co-published a book entitled The Arabic Printed Book: From Origins to Bulaq Press.
In 2012, he participated in Granshan Competition in Yerevan as a judge for Arabic typefaces. From 2013 to 2015 he has been selected as an expert for Granshan Competition for Arabic typefaces. In 2016, he has been invited to lecture about the history of Bulaq press and Arabic History of Printing in Jikji International Ceremony in South Korea. During 2016-2017 he is been invited as a founding member the International Association of Printing Museums (IAPM) in Cheongju, South Korea. From 2018-2020 he is officially nominated by Bibliotheca Alexandrina to be a founding and a board member of the International Association of Printing Museums (IAPM) in Cheongju, South Korea.