Translation project takes step forward with publication of first batch of titles
London, December 2019 — The first batch of Macat titles translated into Arabic by the Alexandria Trust, with support from several individual and institutional donors, has been published by Cairo-based publisher Akhbar al Youm. Published titles include: Hourani’s History of the Arab Peoples, Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Plato’s Republic, Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations, Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Said’s Orientalism and...
Read MoreRecord Readership for Al-Fanar Media in July 2019
London, 2 August 2019 – The Trust’s flagship project, Al-Fanar Media, has hit an all-time monthly high, recording its highest readership in the publication’s six year lifespan. Since 2013, Al-Fanar Media has been covering education, research, and culture in the Arab region. All of its stories, commentary and resources are published in both Arabic and English.
Former AUC President joins board of Alexandria Trust
London, 27 July 2019 – Lisa Anderson has joined the Board of Trustees of the Alexandria Trust. She served as President of the American University in Cairo from 2011-2016. Dr Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She is Dean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, where she led the...
Read MorePresident of Mediterranean Universities Union joins Trust board
London, 14 July 2019 — Wail Benjelloun has joined the Board of Trustees of the Alexandria Trust. He currently serves as President of the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED). Professor Benjelloun is former President of Mohammed V University (MVU) in Rabat and President of the Conference of Moroccan University Presidents. He was Vice President of Al Akhawayn University and Dean of the MVU Faculty of Science. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience...
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John Waterbury steps down after three years as a trustee
London, 1 March 2019 — Three years after he joined the Alexandria Trust in 2016, Dr John Waterbury has stepped down from his role on the Board of Trustees. Dr Waterbury was the 14th President of the American University of Beirut (AUB) in January 1998 and retired from the presidency in July 2008. Before joining AUB, he was for twenty years Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton...
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Trust organises second UK lecture tour with British Council
London, 20 February 2019 – Building on experience in organising higher-education events in Istanbul, Amman, Beirut, London, Washington, and New York, the Alexandria Trust, through Al-Fanar Media and in collaboration with the British Council, invited two Syrian academics to the United Kingdom to speak about the state of Syrian higher education and the needs of individual professors and students to improve the quality of higher education. This “lecture tour” builds on...
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Trust receives repeat grant from OSF
New York City, 31 August 2018– The Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) has awarded the Alexandria Trust for the second time a grant to expand awareness and knowledge, and catalyze action to improve educational access and quality in the Middle East and North Africa. The grant will support core activities of Al-Fanar Media, an online publication dedicated to covering key issues in Arab higher education, and a project of...
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Alexandria Trust receives grant from the Arab Fund
London, 18 April 2018 – The Alexandria Trust has received a $100,000 grant from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development to be used to cover a portion of the costs of upgrading Al-Fanar Media’s scholarship resource. The scholarship resource aims at enhancing Arab students’ ability to easily find scholarship opportunities, apply for scholarships that suit their needs and connect with scholarship providers.
Emma Playfair bids farewell to Trust
London, 2 March 2018 – Long-serving Trustee Emma Playfair has bid farewell to the Alexandria Trust. Trustees expressed their thanks and appreciation to Emma for all the work she has done during her time on the Board of Trustees and also for offering to remain in touch about the Trust.
Incubation of Jamiya Project comes to an end
London, 4 July 2017– Jamiya is now separated from the Trust and is registered as an independent charitable organisation in the UK, and looking to expand its work to support imaginative education solutions for refugees. The incubation of the Jamiya Project allowed the Trust to support a promising project in its early stages of implementation, as well as helping it set up as a sustainable, independent organisation.