Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s Serageldin cleared of graft charges brought against him by library staff

An Egyptian court yesterday acquitted Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s founding director Ismail Serageldin from graft charges brought against him by library staff, “overturning a three-and-a-half year sentence on charges of squandering public funds,” The Associated Press reports. Employees had accused Serageldin of “wasting EGP 20 mn (about USD 1.2 mn) by paying hefty salaries to top advisers and privately traveling abroad at the library’s expense.”