1. Contact us by clicking this REGISTER LINK and send us your contact information. After registering you will receive a Confirmation that the Bibalex has received  your form. You receive your reading passage. Reading is not a requirement  for attendance.

2. There is no charge to attend the Full Program, but you must make your own travel and lodging arrangements  Check our travel links for suggestions.

3. We suggest you familiarize yourself with The Iliad before arriving, and upon arrival view the exhibits about Homer in the Library.

4. Tell your friends and contacts about this reading through the information on this website.

5.  On Tuesday Oct. 21, pick up your Program Packet at the Little Theatre in the Bibalex Conference Center between 8:00 and 9:15.  The Packet will contain the bilingual text (in English and in Arabic) from an edited version of  the ILIAD. Those who are reading will get their assigned number for how and when to read in the proper sequence.  

6.  Join the audience.  The Program begins at 9:30.

7.  Be prepared to go onstage as your reading number gets closer. You will take the stage with four other readers whose numbers come before yours.

8. Read when you're assigned to. you will be wearing a numbered hanging badge to identify you to those who might need to find you. hopefully, that won't be necessary as you will be on the stage in a chair five readers after the current reader. This is not complicated; We will have complete instructions for making a smooth approach to the microphone.

9. When reading, there are no rules except that you may not comment and you may not apologize. just read as you do. If you stumble, proceed. no problem. you are amongst friends.

10. Return to your place in the audience and enjoy the rest of the Reading !

11. Tell us how it went. Stay in touch. Be well.

BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
October 21, 2008

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