Suyufiyya Girls' School or al-Madrasa al-Suyufiyya was a school for girls in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

. Founded in 1873, it was Egypt's first officially sponsored girls' school.Nick Posegay
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Cambridge University Library, January 2020. It had the backing of

Khedive Ismail Isma'il Pasha ( ar, إسماعيل باشا ; 12 January 1830 – 2 March 1895), was the Khedive of Khedivate of Egypt, Egypt and conqueror of Sudan (region), Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when Tewfik Pasha, he was removed at the behest of Great Bri ...

's third wife, Jashem Afet Hanum. Prior to its foundation, there had been the special medical school School for hakımāt, as well as a school from 1853 reserved only for Coptic Christian girls. In the late 1870s it merged with another girls' school for poorer students, al-Qarabiyya, leading to a drop in enrollment as upper-class parents abandoned the school. In 1889 the Ministry of Education tried to revive the school under the name al-Saniyya, but parents seem to have objected to mixing better-off and poorer students at the school.

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