Books for the new library will be selected by an international panel of scholars and will not be censored. Potential interference from fundamentalist factions has not even been considered, perhaps because Alexandria, with its polyglot population, has never experienced a terrorist incident. Egypt is surprisingly well wired. Major hotels are connected to the Internet. Internet cafes are common in large cities.
Cell phones playing the theme from Swan Lake when they ring are ubiquitous.
There are more than a million satellite dishes in a country of nearly 70 million people, and the government has granted Egypt's 250,000 Internet subscribers unrestricted access to the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web will be accessible to all.