Talaat

Amazing person

CONTENTS

•1 Introduction

•2 His works .

•3 Personal life .

•4 Projects established by him.

INTRODUCTION

• Talaat Pasha Harb :

• (25 November 1867 - 13 August 1941)

was a leading Egyptian economist

and founder of Banque Misr (The Bank

of Egypt), and its group of companies.

HIS WORK

• The establishment of Banque Misr , the first real

Egyptian bank owned by Egyptian shareholders

and staffed by Egyptian nationals.

• The idea of establishing Banque Misr first emerged in

1907, when Talaat Harb published a book calling for

the founding of a national bank with Egyptian

financing.

• He continued advocating this call on all occasions.

In 1911, he published another book titled "The

Egyptian Economic Reform and the Nation's Bank

Project ", where he explained his economic idea.

HIS WORK

• The bank, under the leadership of Talaat Harb,

established a number of companies operating in

various sectors, such as: textiles, shipping, publishing,

movie making, insurance and the first national

airline: Egypt Air.

• Talaat Harb was honored by naming several streets

and squares in Cairo and other cities. His statue in

Talaat Harb square in downtown Cairo. In 1980, on

the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of Banque

Misr.

HIS WORK

• the late President Anwar Sadat, awarded Talaat

Harb the Nile Collar, which is the highest ranking of

all Egyptian decorations. It is granted exclusively to

kings, heads of state and those who rendered great

services on a national or human level in general.

• He also initiated many economic projects in Saudi

Arabia.

PERSONAL LIFE

• Talaat Harb lost his wife at a relatively early age. He

was survived by his four daughters: Fatma, Aisha,

Khadiga and Hoda (Before her death she donated

a piece of land & money to build an academic

cardiac institute at Ain Shams Faculty of medicine).

T A L A A T H A R B ( 1 8 6 7 - 1 9 4 1 )

POST STAMP

PROJECTS ESTABLISHED BY HIM

• 1907 Al-Ahly (The National) Sporting Club (by giving credit to the club foundation committe

• 1920: Banque Misr; capital LE80,000

• 1922: Misr Printing House; capital LE5,000

• 1923: The Egyptian Company for Paper Manufacture; capital LE30,000

• 1923: Misr Company for Cotton Ginning; capital LE30,000

• 1925: Misr Company for Acting and Cinema (Studio Misr); capital LE15,000

• 1926: The Egyptian Real Estate Co.; capital LE116,000

• 1926: Egypt-France Bank; capital 5 million F. Francs

• 1927: Misr Weaving Co.; capital LE300,000

• 1927: Misr Fishery Co.; capital LE20,000

PROJECTS ESTABLISHED BY HIM

• 1927: Misr Silk Weaving Co.; capital LE10,000

• 1927: Misr Linen Co.; capital LE45,000

• 1929: Egypt-Syria Bank; capital one million Syrian Lira

• 1930: Misr Transport and Shipping Co.; capital LE160,000

• 1932: Egyptian Products Sale Co.; capital LE5,000

• 1932: Misr Air Co.; capital LE40,000

• 1934: Egypt Travel Co., capital LE7,000

• 1934: The Egyptian Company for Leather and Tanning

• 1935: Misr for Mines and Quarries Co.; capital LE40,000

• 1937: Misr for the Manufacture and Trade of Oil; capital LE30,000

PROJECTS ESTABLISHED BY HIM

• 1938: Misr al-Beida for Dyeing, in co-operation with

Bradford, capital LE250,000

• 1940: Egypt Medical Pharmaceuticals, capital

LE10,000

THANKS & BEST REGARDS