Mr. Amr Moussa’s Valuable Donation to NU

The renown Egyptian diplomat Mr. Amr Moussa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt; the former Secretary-General of the Arab League; and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nile University, has donated his own library to Nile University. His personal library contains hundreds of books and scripts, which he generously gifted to Nile University, and to which he stated that the university deserves such an initiative for its immense scientific achievements and the great role it plays in facing many challenges.

The library of Mr. Amr Moussa includes 1554 books and references, including 918 books in Arabic that delve largely in political, economic and social sciences, and the rest of the collection varies between social sciences, literature, history, religions, philosophy and general knowledge; and 636 books are in foreign languages that also mainly present knowledge in the political and economic sciences fields.

The main purpose of establishing a hall for the personal library of Mr. Amr Moussa is to preserve and document from that special and distinguished group of books and references with unique cultural, intellectual and cognitive content in the various sectors of knowledge, most notably political and economic sciences. The aim of such a donation is to openly provide this cultural and scientific data to various sectors of researchers, individuals and research institutions, and to facilitate ways to benefit from it.

H.E. Mr. Amr Moussa is a name that needs no introduction; however, it is necessary to be familiar with some of his worldwide achievements. He is always present and active in his work when it comes to Nile University specifically and to the world in general. Mr. Amr Mahmoud Abu Zeid Moussa was born on October 3, 1936, in Cairo. He pursued politics and insisted on joining the Faculty of Law from a young age. Indeed, he joined it and obtained a license in law from Cairo University in 1957 and joined the diplomatic corps at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1958. Mr. Amr Moussa worked as the Director of International Organizations at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977; he was the Egyptian Ambassador to India from 1983 to 1986, Head of the Egyptian Delegation to the United Nations in 1990-1991, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991to 2001 and Secretary General of the Arab League from 2001 to 2011. On 8th September 2013, he was elected president of the committee of 50 that will amend the Egyptian constitution.

This big event coincided with the graduation ceremony that was held on Friday, October 30th of the new batch of students who obtained a bachelor's degree. In the presence of the University's Board of Trustees in its entirety, Dr. Tarek Khalil, President of the Nile University has conducted his pep speech and warmingly congratulated the students on their great effort to excel despite the hard circumstances that they went through in this pandemic. The ceremony was also honored with the presence of the great archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, the deans of the university's faculties and a large number of university professors and natural leaders interested in the educational process.

It is a great honor for Nile University to own such a library filled with this wealth of knowledge and intellect and a distinguished collection of books and references in the political, social, economic and literary sciences sector.