Bahrain to open branch of Ain Shams University in Manama

CAIRO - 10 May 2017: Bahraini delegation visited Cairo on Sunday to kick off preparations for establishing a branch of Ain Shams University in Bahraini capital, Manama, due to its long history of highly-quality education.

The delegation, including representatives of the daughter of the current Bahraini prime minister and education activist Sheikha Lulu Salman bint Khlaifa, , and the construction company, expressed their excitement to visit one of oldest universities in the Middle East during a meeting with Dr. Abdel Wahab Ezzat, Ain Shams University president.

Talks addressed the faculties that will be included at the university, such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, administrative sciences, engineering and law in the English language. They also discussed the expected number of students.

Ain Shams University was the third university built in Egypt. It was founded in July 1950 under the name of "Ibrahim Pasha University." When it was first established, Ain Shams University comprised a number of distinguished faculties and academic institutes, which were later developed into a university. It now includes 15 faculties and two high institutes. It graduates approximately 170 thousand students per year.