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R 141453Z OCT 09
FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO
TO RUEHBUL/AMEMBASSY KABUL 0319
INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3886
RUCNAFG/AFGHANISTAN COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS CAIRO 001959
Department for NEA/ELA, NEA/PPD and SCA/PPD
SIPDIS
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TAGS: OEXC PGOV EAID PREL SCUL AF
SUBJECT: Al-AZHAR VP WELCOMES COOPERATION WITH KABUL UNIVERSITY
REF: KABUL 2998
1.PAO met with Dr. Abdullah El-Hossieny Helal, Vice President for Educational and Students Affairs, Al-Azhar University,
on October 8, to discuss possible cooperation and exchanges with Kabul University. Dr. Helal said that Kabul University
should send proposals to him. He added that Al-Azhar is happy to cooperate with Kabul, including sending its professors
to Kabul and accepting students and professors from Kabul at Al Azhar. He stressed, however, that Al-Azhar would need a
formal protocol as they have with many other foreign universities throughout the Islamic world.
2.Proposals should be sent directly to: Dr. Abdullah El-Hossieny Helal Education and Student Affairs, Al-Azhar
University 1, Mamdouh Salem St, Nasr City Cairo, Egypt XXXXXXXXXXXX SCOBEY