Continuing his support for universities and higher education, Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber has supported the Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC) at the American University in Cairo with a grant.   

The Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC) was established in 2004 to create a repository of primary recordings of first hand accounts to Egypt’s contemporary history with regard to its economic and business history. The primary aim of EBHRC is to preserve the heritage and untold history of Egypt through the memories of the Egyptian people.  EBHRC identifies, acquires, classifies, and makes available for qualified researchers selected documents, collections of private papers, records of oral history, and rare publications relevant to the social and economic history of Egypt, focusing on the business history of Egypt. 

EBHRC also receives financial and scholarly support from Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Washington. Founding faculty includes Professor Abdelaziz Ezzelarab of the Economics Department and Director of EBHRC, Professor Ellis Goldberg of the Political Science Department and Director of the Middle East Center at University of Washington, Professor Roger Owen of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Professor Emeritus Robert Tignor of the History Department at Princeton University and Professor Robert Vitalis of the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Center is the only one of its kind; EBHRC runs the only Business History programme on and in the Middle East. 

EBHRC will be holding its sixth AUC Annual Forum On The Economic and Business History of Egypt and the Middle East this May.   

For more information on the EBHRC, please visit http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/ebhrc/about/Pages/default.aspx.