Several sources of information exist on the web that might be helpfull to you. A very good guide to american and canadian universities is http://www.petersons.com which is the online version of Petersons guide that is available from Amideast (see below for info about amideast). From its main page go to the graduate study, this page contains usefull details for international students and for the graduate application process.

Local sources of information include Amideast for american universities and CIDA for canadian ones.

• Amideast is located in 23 Mossadek Street, Dokki, Giza. Tel: 3378265,3542726,3378973 ; Fax: 3552946,3540896 ; Email: egypt@amideast.org ; Home Page: http://www.amideast.org. It has a library containig university catalogs and a lot of details about the applications and admissions procedures. This office is also the place where you go to register for the TOEFL and GRE exams since they are the representative of ETS (Educational Testing Services) in Egypt. The site of ETS on the web is http://www.ets.org. It contains information about the different services provided by ETS including a university admission guide as well as the addresses of the ETS representatives all over the world. It also has links to the TOEFL site (http://www.toefl.org) and GRE site (http://www.gre.org) where ample details and even sample test questions can be found.
• CIDA stands for the Canadian International Development Agency. The location of this office changed a lot lately but finally stabilized in the building facing the american embassy in America el Latina street, Garden City. Stand with your back to the enterance of the embassy, you will see facing you a building with a flowers shop, CIDA is the office just above this shop. Like Amideast, CIDA has lots of university catalogs that you may use. This office also presents a student counselling service (for free) to guide you in your choices. The important thing that they do have also is a LOT of scholarships for the francophonie. Those among you who speak french will be most welcomed to study in Quebec (the french speaking province of Canada).

Several web sites contain informations specific to certain disciplines. For example if you are an electrical engineering student then the site entitled `ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS' is good for you. If you are looking for a physics department go to `Graduate programs in Physics.'