Arab Contractors
{{Short description|Egyptian construction and contracting company}}
{{redirect|Al Mokawloon Al Arab|the club owned by the company|Al Mokawloon Al Arab SC}}
{{Infobox company
| name = The Arab Contractors
| type = Government-owned corporation
| logo = Arab contractors.gif
| logo_size = 100px
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| hq_location = Cairo
| hq_location_country = Egypt
| founded = {{Start date and age|1955|df=yes}}
| founders = Osman Ahmed Osman
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| industry = Construction
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| services = General contracting, architecture, civil engineering
| num_employees = 72,097 (2013){{cite web |title=Annual Report 2013 |url=https://www.arabcont.com/annualreport_E-2013.rar |website=SACTP SARL |access-date=26 July 2022}}
| revenue = {{EGP|11.03 billion|link=yes}} (2013)
| website = {{URL|www.arabcont.com}}
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The Arab Contractors, known locally as Al Mokawloon Al Arab ({{langx|ar|المقاولون العرب|al-Muqāwilūn al-ʿArab}}), is an Egyptian regional construction and contracting company.
History
It was established in 1955 by Osman Ahmed Osman, an Egyptian entrepreneur and politician who served as Egypt's Housing Minister under Sadat's presidency. It was nationalized in 1961 following the Egyptian revolution of 1952.{{Cite book|last=Steven A. Cook|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810533906|title=The struggle for Egypt : from Nasser to Tahrir Square|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-993177-4|pages=122|language=en|oclc=810533906}}{{Cite web|title=دخل الجامعة بـ شهادة فقر فأسس أكبر شركة للمقاولات.. محطات فى حياة المعلم عثمان أحمد عثمان|language=ar|url=https://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/2705364.aspx|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Al-Ahram}} It has been involved in the construction of several government buildings in Egypt. The company also owns a football club, El Mokawloon SC, that plays in the Egyptian Premier League.
Since the late 1970s, the company has diversified its business to include banking, insurance, agriculture, food processing, hotel services and health care. {{Cite book|last=Fick|first=David S.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/654611835|title=Africa : continent of economic opportunity|date=2006|publisher=STE Publishers|isbn=978-1-919855-46-2|location=Johannesburg, South Africa|pages=448|oclc=654611835}} Today, El-Mokawloon El-Arab is one of the largest companies in the Middle East and North Africa with projects not only in Egypt, but also Morocco, UAE, Algeria, Libya, Uganda,{{Cite web|title=Arab Contractors mark 20 years in Uganda|url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1490057/arab-contractors-mark-uganda|access-date=2021-11-01|website=New Vision|language=en}} Lebanon, Kuwait.
Infrastructure projects
- Aswan High Dam{{Cite web|last=Musa|first=Heba|date=September 4, 2020|title=المهندس محسن صلاح.. والمقاولون العرب|language=ar|url=https://m.akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/3108087/1/المهندس-محسن-صلاح..-والمقاولون-العرب|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Akhbar el-Yom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929020421/https://m.akhbarelyom.com/news/NewDetails/3108087/1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD..-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8 |archive-date=2020-09-29 }}
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- Cairo-Alexandria desert road
- Luxor International Airport
- Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
- Hurghada International Airport
- Nador International Airport - Morocco
- Borg El Arab Stadium
- Yasser Arafat International Airport - Gaza Strip (destroyed in 2001)
- Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station
- 6th October Bridge
- Nador International Airport
- Smart Village, Egypt
- Rod El Farag Axis Bridge{{fact|date=July 2022}}
- Nouakchott Tramway - Mauritania
External links
- [https://www.arabcont.com/english/ Official website]