Public university founded in Ismaʿilia, Egypt, in 1976.
Egypt's President Anwar al-Sadat (1970 - 1981) founded Suez Canal University as part of his plan to rebuild and symbolically reclaim the war-damaged Suez Canal cities. In 1975 he had reopened the canal, which had been blocked since the June 1967 Arab - Israel War. With five colleges in Ismaʿilyya and two each in al-Arish and Suez, the university has a teaching staff of 638, 12,312 undergraduates, and 1,588 graduate students.
Bibliography
Suez Canal University. Available from http://www.suez .edu.eg.
The World of Learning 2004. London, Europa Publications, 2004: pp. 492 - 93.
— DONALD MALCOLM REID
