Ali Pasha Mubarak was an Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 public works

Public works

Public works are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community...

 and education

Education

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 minister during the second half of the nineteenth century. He is often considered one of the most influential and talented of Egypt's 19th century reformers. He was born in "Berembal Elgedeeda" a Nile Delta village and attended a government prep school before being admitted to the Cairo School of Engineering. During his studies in Cairo he was the top student and as a result was chosen to be a member of a student mission sent by Muhammad Ali to France in 1844. He studied in Paris for two years and directly after that in Metz at a school for artillery officers and military engineers. He returned to his homeland in 1849 and was given an instructors position in the artillery school. After this in 1850, he became the first native Egyptian Muslim to be appointed the director of the entire system of government schools. This marked the beginning of his "rich career of public service that spanned nearly four decades and included appointments as head of the ministries of education, public works

Egyptian Public Works

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, and railways." Ali Mubarak is known for his contribution in the reconstruction of Cairo

Cairo

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's landscape and for founding Egypt's modern educational system.

His most famous work is titled al-Khitat al-Tawfiqiyya al-Jadida (Tawfiq

Tewfik Pasha

HH Muhammed Tewfik Pasha ' was Khedive of Egypt and Sudan between 1879 and 1892, and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.-Early life:...

's New Plans, referring to Egypt's ruler at the time), which provides a detailed, street-by-street description of Egypt's major cities and villages.

He also contributed to the start of the Egyptian National Library and Archives

Egyptian National Library and Archives

The Egyptian National Library and Archives in Cairo is the largest library in Egypt. The second largest are the libraries of Al-Azhar University and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina ....

around 1870 which is one of the largest and oldest government libraries.