Tuesday 24/March/2026 – 12:34 AM
The Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, announced the details of the celebrations of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, for its centenary, which bears the name of the Dean of Arabic Literature, Dr. Taha Hussein, as the personality of the century for the college.
The celebration is expected to witness a number of cultural and intellectual events that highlight the college’s role in shaping cultural awareness in Egypt and the Arab world, in addition to announcing new surprises during the event, which is held to celebrate a long history and a promising future.
Cairo University is preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Arts, one of the most prestigious colleges in Egypt and the Arab world, which has established its position as a beacon of thought and culture, and an academic institution that has played a pivotal role in shaping collective consciousness across successive generations. Over the course of an entire century, the college was not just an educational edifice, but rather a factory for the cultural elite, and a fertile environment that produced symbols in literature, philosophy, criticism, and thought, who contributed to shaping the features of Egyptian and Arab cultural identity.
The Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, produced generations of thinkers and writers who left immortal imprints on the history of Arab culture, foremost among them the Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein, who brought about a major transformation in the curricula of literary criticism and contributed to consolidating the foundations of scientific thinking in the study of literature. The international writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz also graduated from it, who presented, through his novels, a panoramic picture of Egyptian society with its social and human details.
