Mostafa El-Abbadi

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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Patricia Bauer
Pat Bauer graduated from Ripon College in 1977 with a double major in Spanish and Theatre. She spent most of the next 42 years working as a copy editor and editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 13, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Feb 09, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Oct 06, 2023
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Champion of Alexandrias Resurrected Library, Dies.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Sep 05, 2017
	New article added.	Patricia Bauer	Mar 28, 2017