Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt Reid Paperback 9780521894333

Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt\n\nA fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution.\n\nDonald Malcolm Reid (Author)\n\n9780521894333, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 4 July 2002\n\n316 pages\n23 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.512 kg\n\n\""Donald Malcolm Reid has written a major work which is both instructive and genuinely entertaining to read....Complex as his subject is, he has managed to harness a great amount of material and to have presented a fascinating picture of one of the world's major national institutions....Well written and manageable in terms of data and argument, this sustained study of Cairo University, alma mater to Egypt's other state universities (except for Al Azhar), is a commendable study in Egyptian university history and in the wider scholarship of the history of universities.\""\nJean-Pierre V. M. Herubel, Digest of Middle East Studies\n\nCairo University has been crucially important in shaping the nation]