Cairo University

جامعة القاهرة Gāmaʿat al-Qāhirah
Established	1908
Type	Public
President	Dr. Hossam Mohamed Kamel Mahmoud
Academic staff	12,158
Students	280,000
Location	Giza, Giza, Egypt 30.02760°N 31.21014°E / 30.02760; 31.21014
Campus	Urban
Former names	Egyptian University Fuʾād I University
Website	www.cu.edu.eg/

Cairo University

Cairo University Central Library

Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة‎, previously Egyptian University and Fuad University) is a public university in Giza, Egypt.

The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought. Several constituent colleges preceded the establishment of the university including the College of Engineering (كلية الهندسة) in 1816, which was shut down by the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, Sa'id Pasha, in 1854. Cairo University was founded as a European-inspired civil university, in contrast to the religious university of al-Azhar, and became the prime indigenous model for other state universities.

Cairo University includes a School of Law and a School of Medicine. The Medical School, also known as Kasr Alaini (القصر العيني, Qasr-el-'Ayni), was one of the first medical schools in Africa and the Middle East. Its first building was donated by Alaini Pasha. It has since undergone extensive expansion. The first president of Cairo University, then known as the Egyptian University, was Professor Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, who served from 1925 to 1941.

Saad Zaghloul.

New Central Library

Cairo University Clock, photographed by Amr Rady.

A new Central Library is planned.

Faculties and Institutes

• Cairo University Center for Arabic Language and Culture (ALCC)
• The Faculty of Sciences
• The Faculty of Agriculture
• The Faculty of Archaeology
• The Faculty of Arts
• The Faculty of Commerce
• The Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• The Faculty of Dar El-Ulum
• The Faculty of Oral Dental Medicine
• The Faculty of Economics and Political Science
• The Faculty of Engineering
• The Faculty of Law
• The Faculty of Mass Communications
• The Faculty of Medicine
• The Faculty of Pharmacy
• The Faculty of Physiotherapy
• The Faculty of Urban and Regional planning
• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Notable alumni

Further information: List of Cairo University alumni

See also

• Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, first President of Cairo University
• Cairo University alumni
• Education in Egypt
• Egyptian universities
• List of Egyptian universities

External links

• Cairo University official website
• New KasrAlainy Teaching Hospital
• Human Rights Watch: The Repression of Academic Freedom in Egyptian Universities.
• Cairo University at NNDB
• IEEE Cairo University Student Branch