and King Fuad I University and Fu'ad al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952. The main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. After being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current main campus in Giza in October 1929.

The university was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a committee of private citizens with royal patronage in 1908