American Research Center in Egypt

US-based research institute

American Research Center in Egypt

Established	1948
Endowment	$73,233,160
Address	US Office, 909 North Washington Street, Suite 320 Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Location	Cairo Office, 2 Midan Simón Bolívar Garden City, Egypt 11461
Website	http://www.arce.org/

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is an American non-profit dedicated to supporting research in Egyptian history. It is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.

History

ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome. The center's Egyptian headquarters opened in 1951 in an office at the Office of U.S. Information and Educational Exchange in the American Embassy in Cairo.

Following the devastating earthquake in 1992, ARCE was chosen by USAID to administer an American-funded initiative to restore damage to Egypt's built heritage. USAID also endowed ARCE with two sizable endowments, providing the organization with substantial financial independence and freedom through which it still operates today.

Activities

ARCE's headquarters are in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo, with a subsidiary office in Luxor. The United States headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia. The Cairo Center features a research library and is intended as a base for academics from the United States when conducting research in Egypt. ARCE also awards fellowships for research in Egypt.

Further information on ARCE's programmatic expenditures, grant and contribution income, and executive compensation are available to the public through its annual tax filings. Despite the conservative size of ARCE'S staffing, executive compensation constitutes one of its greatest expenditures, often equal to or greater than 50% of all other compensatory expenses.