Bibliotheca Alexandrina issued "Silk Road Encyclopedia" for the researcher Ashraf Abu al-Yazid, the encyclopedia includes hundreds of colored images, and definitions of the sites on the Silk Road.

The book, entitled "Diwan of Arabic calligraphy in Samarkand" by Dr. Shebl Obaid, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Antiquities, Cairo University, and published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is considered to be a proven scientific study published for the first time in Arabic and even unique in the field of calligraphy studies in the whole world.