India to use tech prowess to cement ties with the Arab world
NEW DELHI: India is seeking to put into use its knowledge of technology to cement its ties with the Arab world. New Delhi is ready to offer help to Egypt's AlAzhar University to set up information technology centres on the various campuses of the 10th century seminary, one of the biggest in the world to study Islam and Arabic literature.
India is already setting up an IT centre on the main campus of AlAzhar University in Cairo under a pact signed in 2013. The plan now is to extend its expertise in building such facilities across Egypt in all the other institutions of the AlAzhar Mosque, which the university is associated with.
The offer will be made when Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah elSisi here on Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. AlAzhar University was established in 970 AD as a school attached to the mosque and has emerged over the centuries as one of Sunni Islam's most important universities, attracting students from across continents.
It had sided with the military during the 2013 protests to remove the then President Mohamed Morsi of Muslim Brotherhood. The Grand Sheikh of the AlAzhar Mosque, Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed elTayeb, has been impressed with the idea of the India assisted IT centre on the main campus of the varsity and has expressed interest in Delhi doing the same in other institutions affiliated with the university
Cairo is also keen to learn from India's expertise in the IT sector and Sisi's visit could give a boost to such cooperation amid drive by his government to modernize Egypt's economy. India has been extending IT expertise across nations in Southeast Asia, Africa and parts of West Asia.
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NEW DELHI: India is seeking to put into use its knowledge of technology to cement its ties with the Arab world. New Delhi is ready to offer help to Egypt's AlAzhar University to set up information technology centres on the various campuses of the 10th century seminary, one of the biggest in the world to study Islam and Arabic literature.
India is already setting up an IT centre on the main campus of AlAzhar University in Cairo under a pact signed in 2013. The plan now is to extend its expertise in building such facilities across Egypt in all the other institutions of the AlAzhar Mosque, which the university is associated with.
The offer will be made when Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah elSisi here on Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. AlAzhar University was established in 970 AD as a school attached to the mosque and has emerged over the centuries as one of Sunni Islam's most important universities, attracting students from across continents.
It had sided with the military during the 2013 protests to remove the then President Mohamed Morsi of Muslim Brotherhood. The Grand Sheikh of the AlAzhar Mosque, Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed elTayeb, has been impressed with the idea of the India assisted IT centre on the main campus of the varsity and has expressed interest in Delhi doing the same in other institutions affiliated with the university
Cairo is also keen to learn from India's expertise in the IT sector and Sisi's visit could give a boost to such cooperation amid drive by his government to modernize Egypt's economy. India has been extending IT expertise across nations in Southeast Asia, Africa and parts of West Asia.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-with-the-arab-world/articleshow/53937441.cms
