Qasim Amin - Cairo University

Cairo University

Qasim Amin's was one of the founders of the first Egyptian University, known then as the National University, it formed the nucleus of the present Cairo University, he was a member of its constituent committee. Qasim Amin insisted that Egypt needed a Western style university.

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