Cairo University began as the Egyptian University, a private institution founded in the early twentieth century, with funds from donors and the backing of nationalist figures. It taught subjects such as the arts and law, and became a center of modern intellectual life in Egypt. It was taken over by the state in the 1920s, and was named after King Fuad I, then was renamed Cairo University after the revolution of 1952. Its main campus lies in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo. Among its notable teachers and students are the writer Taha Hussein, the novelist Naguib Mahfouz and Mohamed ElBaradei, and it remains one of the largest universities in the Arab world.
Before and after
- 15 December 1907Birth of Oscar Niemeyer
- 17 December 1907Founding of Bhutan
- from 1908 to 1946Kingdom of Bulgaria
- from 1908 to 1913Geiger–Marsden experiment
- 1908Founding of Cairo University
- 1908Identification of Takayasu's arteritis
- 9 January 1908Birth of Lev Landau
- 9 January 1908Birth of Simone de Beauvoir
- 27 January 1908Discovery of Pasiphae
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