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Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University Central Library
Saad Zaghloul.
Cairo University Clock
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
Mahmoud Mokhtar
Mahmoud Mukhtar's Egypt's Renaissance 1919-1928, Cairo University Gate
(May 10, 1891 - March 28, 1934) was an Egyptian sculptor. Despite his early death, his impact on modern and contemporary Egyptian art has been colossal. He is considered the father of modern Egyptian sculpture
History
Born in the Nile Delta in a small village called Douar skouila, in the region of Mahalla al-Kubra, in the village of Tanbara, where his father was the mayor (´Omda). Mukhtar moved to Cairo as a child with his mother, and in 1908 joined the newly founded Egyptian School of Fine Arts. In 1911, he was granted a scholarship to study art in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Works
In France, he befriended members of the Wafd Party and was inspired to create the prototype of his famous statue, Nahdit Misr aka "Egypt´s Renaissance," which was initially unveiled in Ramses Square in 1928 and now stands opposite the Cairo University Bridge.
Winning many honours and awards in Paris and Cairo, Mokhtar also became famous for his two monumental statues of Saad Zaghlul (one in Alexandria, the other in Cairo). Some of his other well-known sculptures include "The Secret Keeper," "Isis," "The Nile´s Bride" and "Khamaseen."
Museum
The Mukhtar Museum in Cairo houses Mahmoud Mokhtar´s works in various media.
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