Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt

by Donald Malcolm Reid

Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. It has educated much of the political, professional and cultural elite: doctors and lawyers, novelists and philosophers, bankers and prime ministers have all studied there. Founded in 1908 and for many years competing only with the religious mosque-university of al-Azhar, the European-inspired Cairo University quickly became the prime indigenous model for other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521894336
• ISBN13: 9780521894333
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"