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Documentation Center, will provide in itme1f and through access to other significant libraries all the materials needed of this kind. It is proposed that the research be concentrated in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The University is not prepared t:,o assist in the areas of Science, which areas are already rather wcl1 covered in Egyptian universities (4). While there should be sufficient flexibility in the subject matter of the research in the general areas of the Hu:;nanitier and Social Sciences to make it possible to secure a variety o:? iuterest Tc scholars and students, the limited resources of the Universi,;,y none-theless tend to concentrate research into certain 3pecializatio` s In the Humanities the foci could be two: (I) recognizing the b:î-lingual character of the University, a normal fool's would be Arabic ;md English Language and Literatures and comparative studies involving both of them; and (2) recognizing the bi--cul.tturol character of the University, another focus could be prepared and eventually mnde able in Islam and early Christianity, and comparative studicf„ involving both of them. In the Social Studies an immediate Pod's could bo in Anthropology-Sociology and an eventual feet's in Political Science„ III The following budget proposal indicates the detailed naJ;iare of the program, and its extent. It also reveaia the amount for 4hich the University will be directly liable, as well as the amount requ i ted from the Ford Foundation. While specific items are suggested t such as an U000 a 1 ary f c a year for the visiting American profestisor,E, it should be noted that the actual amounts will vary considerably U Flexibility in bn1got control is therefore necessary, within taut not beyond the total: ug gested u L~ •co "" ~« .~ ~s i ..... d .r> ac CT• .~ s:. •y ..,. w ep 6`s• s+ +.. aD 2 '~ ~ ..m =• ,'n , ,,,• •+u e~ ,~• ~ ~ :J csa •- • ~ m a3 w s T '~• C v ~:, G e' ~ •-.:...~ .•d ~ - C7 =. ~, _, ~ .~. +:, a ~ a ~:, :... . _ (4) This is true even though the University will have a new; building in 1961, as a result of the first United States Government grant