At one time, 40,000 of the 100,000 Palestinians were in Egyptian universities.
He was also one of the founders of the Egyptian University in 1908.
The graduates of the school were eligible to attend Egyptian universities by January 1958.
Yet Egyptian universities continue to grind out graduates.
In this context a group of ethnic Egyptians with a modern education met to found the first Egyptian University.
The palace was used to host the administration offices of the Egyptian University when it was established in 1925.
According to The Economist, standards of education at Egyptian public universities are "abysmal".
Egyptian universities were not like Oxford, Harvard, or the Sorbonne.
He resigned again in 1937 when the Egyptian police broke into the court of the Egyptian University.
During his presidency of the Egyptian University, the first promotion of women graduated with university degrees.