The Heritage Archive
Cairo University Library — Egypt’s first modern university, safeguarding the record of scholarship since 1908.
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How the Library Serves You
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Subject Research Guides
Curated guides prepared by subject librarians direct you to the databases, journals, and reference works suited to your discipline.
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Information Literacy Training
Hands-on workshops teach database searching, citation management, and the critical evaluation of scholarly sources.
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Digital Repository
Explore digitized theses, rare manuscripts, and the university’s scholarly output, preserved for open access.
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About the Library — Since 1908
Founded alongside Egypt’s first national university, Cairo University Library has grown into one of the Arab world’s great academic archives — safeguarding rare manuscripts, doctoral theses, and the accumulated scholarship of generations of Egyptian researchers.
→“Education is like water and air — a right for every citizen.”— Taha Hussein, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University