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November 08, 2006: U.S. Grants Funds to The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library
"The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library has received a grant of $127,450 from the US National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and improve access to the archives of Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef, two of Egypt’s most prominent twentieth-century architects, renowned for their use of traditional elements, such as domes and vaults, wooden mashrabeyya screens, and mud brick construction, in their buildings."
