Henry Habib Ayrout

Who was Henry Habib Ayrout?

Henry Habib Ayrout, S.J. was a jesuit priest in Egypt.

His father Habib Ayrout was a Lebanese Egyptian architect practicing in Cairo, Egypt. After being educated in Paris as an engineer-architect, he participated in the planning and construction of Heliopolis. His two brothers Charles Ayrout and Max Ayrout were also architects practicing in Cairo.

Fr. Ayrout was an educator, and sociologist who established the Catholic Association for Schools of Egypt in 1940. His study of the Egypt's fellahin, The Egyptian Peasant, was first published in French in 1938. Ayrout was rector of the Jesuit College in Faggala from 1962 until his death.

He is the foundator of the Association of Upper Egypt for Education and Development.