Said A. Ashour (سعيد عبد الفتاح عاشور; 1922–2009) was a professor of History at

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

. He authored some 22 books and published numerous papers and articles over his long career. Ashour was Chair of

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section for many decades at the History Departments of

Beirut Arab University Beirut Arab University (BAU) ( ar, جـامعة بيروت العربية) is a Lebanese private university located in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded by the Lebanese Waqf El-Bir wal Ihsan Society in 1960. The University attained the Internation ...

eirut Arab Universityin Lebanon and

Kuwait University Kuwait University ( ar, جامعة الكويت, abbreviated as Kuniv) is a public university located in Kuwait City, Kuwait. History Kuwait University (KU), (in Arabic: جامعة الكويت), was established in October 1966 under Act N. 29 ...

. Dr. Ashour taught at

Alexandria University Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an indepen ...

and was a

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in several universities throughout the Middle East. Ashour was a long serving Chairman of the Society of Arab Historians, an academic institute encompassing membership from the entire

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and beyond.

Career

Ashour worked as a visiting professor at the

University of Riyadh King Saud University (KSU, ar, جامعة الملك سعود) is a public university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdulaziz to address the country's skilled worker shortage, it is the first university in the ...

in 1961 for one year, the

University of Algiers The University of Algiers (Arabic:جامعة الجزائر – بن يوسف بن خـدة ), commonly called the Algiers 1 University, is a public research university located in Algiers, Algeria. It is the oldest and most prestigious universi ...

in 1973, the Beirut Arab University during the period from 1973 to 1975, and the Kuwait University from 1975 to 1985, and he also participated in the founding committee that planned to establish Sultan Qaboos University in Oman during the period From 1983 to 1985, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1985 to 1987, and during his stay there he visited a number of British universities such as the University of Oxford, the University of London and the University of Exeter, and in the latter, Abd al-Hayy Shaban invited him to visit the university and give his lectures there and to see its curricula in the study of history.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashour, Said Egyptian scientists 1922 births 2009 deaths Cairo University faculty Beirut Arab University faculty Egyptian expatriates in Algeria Egyptian expatriates in Saudi Arabia Egyptian expatriates in Kuwait Egyptian expatriates in Lebanon Egyptian expatriates in Oman Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom