The new Egyptian medical school taught through live simultaneous translation

Evidence

While the Pasha and the chief physician of his army, Clot Bey, resorted to the logical choice of recruiting graduates of al-Azhar since this formed the only pool of young literate men in the country, these men certainly had no knowledge of French or any other foreign language. At the same time, most of the doctors who were employed in teaching in the school had no knowledge of Arabic. To surmount this problem, a number of translators were assigned to each lecturer and asked to translate the lecture while it was being delivered. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1124

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Egyptian medical students were taught through simultaneous translation from European lecturers (similarity 0.97)
• The army medical school taught through simultaneous live translation (similarity 0.92)
• Egypt’s first medical school taught a hundred Arabists through foreign translators (similarity 0.88)
• Al-Azhar graduates trained as army doctors under multilingual European teachers (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt’s medical education was fully Arabized within a generation (similarity 0.81)
• Translators sometimes defied the French physicians they served (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian military medical education was progressively Arabized but slowly (similarity 0.79)
• Translator interference in lectures reached Mehmed Ali for adjudication (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Abu-Za’bal’s first medical students were Azharites taught through translators #qualifies (0.80)