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مدخل مركز جميل بسقف مغطى ومصابيح كروية.
No full textThe Abdul Latif Jameel Centre for Middle East Management Studies was established in 1989 using an endowment gifted to AUC from the Jameel family and provided a focal point for progressive management education and training in the Middle East.
Described in 1989 as ‘a masterpiece’ of modern architecture, with ‘flexible characteristics which will enable it to grow and adapt to its role’ (AUC News, Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter 1989), today the Centre forms a core part of The GrEEK Campus, Cairo’s first technology and innovation park established in 2013 at the former AUC site.
Originally built to house AUC's department of management studies and institutes of management, the completed building was inaugurated on 27 February 1989 by the late Abdul Latif Jameel and his son, Mohammed Jameel KBE, founder and chairman of Community Jameel. As an entrepreneur, the late Abdul Latif Jameel believed that progressive management and marketing education 'would benefit administrators, managers and businessmen throughout the Arab world' (AUC News, Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter 1989).
Construction began in 1987, led by architectural consultancy Dar Al-Handasah and overseen by Palestinian-born architect Suhayl Bathish. The architectural concept was to create a versatile space with the capacity to evolve, helping to accommodate different functions as they arose throughout the building's lifespan.
The design blends fair-faced concrete walls to reflect a 'modern' look with traditional design elements—wooden mashrabiya screens and Mamluk-inspired marble arches—to evoke the classical character of the rest of the AUC Greek Campus buildings as well as Cairo’s Mamluk-era architectural monuments.
In 2023, Cairo-based photographer and AUC alumni Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin, with support from Community Jameel, captured the unique and flexible architectural design of the Jameel Centre, which continues to adapt and evolve along with its community of entrepreneurs, as well as the surrounding environment and culture
