Khairy Pasha Palace
History
Khairy Pasha
The Khairy Pasha Palace was built in the 1860s by Khairy Pasha, Minister of Education in the
American University in Cairo
The building briefly became the headquarters of the Egyptian University in the early 1900s, now Cairo University in Giza. The Khairy building was acquired by the American Mission in Egypt in 1919, and opened as the original 1920 American University at Cairo campus structure in downtown Cairo.[3] It was dedicated to being a center for the cultural enrichment and modernization of Egypt.[4]
In 2008 the AUC relocated its undergraduate and graduate programs to the new 'AUC New Cairo Campus' in New Cairo, a new 2001 satellite city around 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the 'AUC Downtown' campus. The university's continuing education programs remained at the 7.8 acres (32,000 m2) 'AUC Downtown' with the main building still the converted Khairy Pasha palace.
See also
References
- ^ "Why Anthropology? | Anthropology | Mesa Community College". www.mc.maricopa.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ^ a b Downtown Cultural Center
- ^ "The University - The American University in Cairo - Acalog ACMS™". catalog.aucegypt.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ISBN 978-0-393-05826-0.
External links
- American University in Cairo: Campus History — (with vintage photograph of Khairy Pasha palace )