Cairo University
جامعة القاهرة Cairo University |
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founding | 1908 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Giza |
country | Egypt |
president | Mohamed Osman Elkhosht |
Students | 200,000 |
Employee | 12,158 |
Networks | FUIW |
Website | www.cu.edu.eg |
The University of Cairo ( in Arabic جامعة القاهرة Jamiat al-Qahira ), with 200,000 students and almost 18,000 academic employees, isthe second largest university in Africa and one of the largest in the worldafter al-Azhar University in Cairo. It is also the second oldest in Cairo, although some older technical colleges, including the Dār al-ʿulūm , were incorporated into the University of Cairo at a later date. The main campus of the university is in Giza near the Nile and in the immediate vicinity of the Giza Zoo .
history
The university was founded on December 21, 1908 under the name of the Egyptian University ( Arabic الجامعة المصرية) was founded as a private university. The first university rector was Prince Fu'ad, who later became King Fu'ad I (1917–1936) , until his resignation in 1913 . In 1925 the university was the first to be nationalized in Egypt. Later facilities such as the engineering school founded in 1821 ( Mohandes chana /مهندسخانة) affiliated. In 1940 it was renamed the University of Fu'ads I after the king who had died four years earlier (جامعة فؤاد الأول). After the military coup in Egypt in 1952 , it was given its current name in accordance with a decree in September 1953.
On June 4, 2009, US President Barack Obama - in the presence of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , among others - gave his much-acclaimed speech to the Islamic world in the main building of Cairo University . It had long been announced in advance that Obama, who took office in January of that year, would give a speech in an Arab capital; the choice of the capital was initially kept secret. Only a select audience was admitted to the speech.
University today
The language of instruction and administration today is basically Arabic (Standard Arabic or Egyptian ), some events (e.g. in political science ) are also held in English or French .
The rector of Cairo University is Ali Abdel-Rahman (status:?).
The university campus is generally only accessible to members of the university, i.e. mainly lecturers and students. The entrances are therefore usually checked and tourists , for example, are turned away.
Personalities
Students and lecturers were or are among others:
- Hassan Fathy , Architect - Degree in Architecture (1926)
- Nagib Mahfuz , Nobel Prize for Literature 1988 - Bachelor in Philosophy (1930-34); one year master's degree in philosophy (discontinued in 1936)
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch - German surgeon, guest surgeon and guest lecturer (especially thoracic surgery, tuberculosis and limb replacement) at the medical faculty
- Schenuda III. - Bachelor in History (1943–1947)
- Yasser Arafat - Degree in Civil Engineering (1944–1950, with a break for the 1948 Palestine War)
- Ismail Fahmi , diplomat (1945)
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Bachelor in Law (1946)
- Omar Sharif - Degree in Mathematics and Physics (before 1955)
- Nabil Elaraby , Secretary General of the Arab League - Law (until 1955)
- Amr Mussa , Secretary General of the Arab League - Law Degree (1957)
- Saddam Hussein - Law (1961–1963? Without degree)
- Mohammed el-Baradei - Bachelor in Law (1962)
- Mohammed Mursi - Bachelor of Engineering (1975), Master of Science in Metallurgy (1978)
- Taher Elgamal - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (1977, according to other sources 1981)
- Jihan as-Sadat - Bachelor in Arabic Literature (1977), Master (1980), Ph.D. (1986)
- Randa Abu Bakr - Studies, PhD (1998), Professor of English Literature
- Helmut Satzinger - foreign student, later visiting professor (2000)
See also
Web links
- Official website (Arabic / English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ almasryalyoum.com
- ^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 17 , accessed on September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ no author details (June 4, 2009). Obama reaches out to Muslim world. BBC (accessed March 13, 2011)
- ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 322-325.
- ↑ Lara Marlowe (May 8, 2014). Omar Sharif: from desert prince to alone in Paris. Irish Times (accessed October 11, 2017)
Coordinates: 30 ° 1 ′ 39.4 ″ N , 31 ° 12 ′ 36.5 ″ E