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American University in Cairo Opens New Campus
FrontLines - March 2009
Cairo—In a ceremony held Feb. 7, the American University in Cairo inaugurated its new campus in New Cairo, moving from its longtime home in downtown
Tahrir Square.
Egypt’s First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and Margaret Scobey, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, spoke at the event. The head of USAID’s Middle East Bureau, George Laudato, led an Agency delegation.
During her speech, the Ambassador said, “The new demands of our new world raise the importance of education. We need our future leaders to be diverse and to have a diverse educational experience…Perhaps most importantly, we need leaders who are dedicated to developing a true respect for each other if we are going to effectively work together to harness
these forces of change for the greater good.”
Over the past 20 years, USAID has provided some $270 million to secure the school’s endowment, increase scholarship programs, expand libraries, and contribute to the construction of the new $400 million campus.
The old campus had 9 acres of land; the new site has 260 acres. When it opened in 1919, the university had 142 students. Today, 90 years later, it has 1,500 faculty and staff, and more than 5,550 students, 1,000 of whom are from outside Egypt. .
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