Editing University of Cairo (section)

==History==

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 in 1816, which was shut down by Muhammad Said 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 in the region.

The first president of Cairo University, then known as the Egyptian University, was Professor Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed.

Future [[Starfleet]] [[Rank|Captain]] [[Ahmed Ibn Salid]] studied Archeology, Ancient Medicine, and Ancient Engineering here. He later went on to become the [[Commanding Officer]] of the [[USS Rosenante]].

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