Dr. Moustafa Elfeki, Director of the BA, met with Mr. Winston Roberts, Senior Advisor at the National Library of New Zealand, who expressed his deep appreciation for the BA, and his interest in building channels of cooperation between this leading cultural institution and the National Library of New Zealand.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Moustafa Elfeki, Director of the BA, proposed last April to invite Ms. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, to serve on the BA Board of Trustees, which includes several prominent international figures in various fields. The proposal was highly welcomed by the Board.
Dr. Elfeki added that Ms. Ardern was internationally hailed due to her exemplary humane stances towards the people of New Zealand in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch. He maintained that she embodies the true values of tolerance, accepting the other, and rejecting violence, which are the same values upheld by the BA.