جامعة عين شمس

Ain Shams University was founded in 1950. Originally called ‘Ibrahim Pasha's University’, it was the third higher education institution to be founded in Egypt and was built on the site of a former royal palace – the Zaafarana Palace – so named because the area surrounding it was famous for saffron plantations (‘zaafaran’, in Arabic). In 1954 the name of the university was changed to ‘Heliopolis’, then to its present name ‘Ain Shams’, Arabic for ‘Heliopolis’, or ‘O'n’, which was the oldest university in history. Today, the university is spread across eight separate campuses, all located in the Greater Cairo area, and it also comprises 20 faculties along with one research institute. There are living facilities for students provided on campus as well as sports and recreational facilities Ain Shams encourages study abroad opportunities for students and has a number of academic partnerships in place with international institutions. Famous alumni of Ain Shams include Egyptian Prime Ministers Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi and Sherif Ismail, well reknowned scientist Farouk El-Baz as well as the American philosopher Charles Butterworth.

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