New Foundation Seeks to Give 15,000 Arab Students Scholarships

By Benjamin Plackett. A billionaire Emirati industrialist started the region’s largest scholarship fund last week. Abdulla Al Ghurair—who made his fortune in iron, steel and banking—has set aside a third of his family’s wealth to get tens of thousands of Arab students enrolled in universities to get science and engineering degrees. The Abdulla al Ghurair Foundation for Education has an initial budget of $1.14 billion for the next ten years, which the foundation’s chief operating officer Maysa Jalbout says will allow 15,000 underprivileged Arab students to go to university. More...