Egypt’s New Alamein City is developing a wider role in education, scientific research and technology alongside its tourism and urban growth. Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir highlighted that direction during a visit to the New Alamein branch of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. He reviewed its teaching, medical and technology facilities and their connection with current labour-market needs.

The visit included the College of Artificial Intelligence, its laboratories and educational technology systems. El-Wazir also toured the teaching hospital, dental clinics and the College of Engineering and Technology. The hospital provides free treatment to more than 200 New Alamein residents each day as part of the academy’s community-service work.

AASTMT President Ismail Abdel Ghafar Farag said the branch covers 62 feddans and began operating in 2019. It has more than 4,000 students across nine colleges covering medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, artificial intelligence, engineering, management, transport and logistics, and postgraduate management studies. Three groups have already graduated from several of those colleges, while the first College of Medicine class is scheduled to graduate this year.

The range of subjects places classroom learning, research and practical services within one coastal campus. El-Wazir said institutions of this kind can prepare professionals for transport, logistics, engineering, AI and medical fields while also supporting the surrounding community. The branch adds an academic and healthcare base to New Alamein’s continuing development as a modern city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.