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The Alexandria Trust is a new charitable venture founded by Egyptians, incorporated in the UK in 2011, and soon to register in the US and Egypt. The Trust’s vision is to develop a new generation of citizens, across the Arab world and beyond, who can serve as active and informed participants in their societies, wherever they may live. It will achieve its aims by providing access to outstanding teaching and thinking in the social sciences and humanities, thereby fostering and upholding independent critical thinking.

The Trust will incubate projects in five target areas:

1. Competitions, fellowships and placements, including juried prizes for essays and debating, with a preliminary focus on Egypt and the Arab world.
2. Content distribution, using state-of-the-art technology that leapfrogs barriers such as lack of Internet access.
3. Setting new gold standards for independent journalism in education.
4. Creating new standards and accreditation measures, with a collaborative kitemarking system across all of the Trust’s work.
5. Promoting philanthropy in higher education.

Founding Trustees:

Salah Khalil, founding Director of Macat International, a company dedicated to providing global access to thought leadership and quality content in the social sciences.

Professor Heba Raouf Ezzat, Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University.

Emma Playfair, human rights lawyer, former Regional Representative for the Ford Foundation’s Cairo Office, and former Executive Director of INTERIGHTS.

Executive Director David French is former Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and Commonwealth Institute.

University of Cambridge International Examinations is the world’s largest provider of international education programmes and qualifications for five to 19 year olds. We are part of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s top universities and are trusted for excellence in education. Our qualifications are recognised by the world’s universities and employers.

We understand education. More than 9000 schools in over 160 countries are part of our Cambridge learning community. Our mission is to provide excellence in education, and our vision is that Cambridge learners become confident, responsible, innovative and engaged.

We are a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.

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