donated by his grandchildren to a museum. 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 and money to build an academic cardiac institute at Ain Shams Faculty of medicine). He was commemorated in the writings and poems of the then poet laureate Ahmed Shawqi, Abbās al-Aqqād, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Salah Gawdat and the Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran. Projects established by Talaat Harb Some of them are presented in this list: 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 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 1938: Misr al-Beida for Dyeing, in co-operation with Bradford, capital LE250,000 1940: Egypt Medical Pharmaceuticals, capital LE10,000 1907: Al-Ahly (The National) Sporting Club (by giving credit to the club foundation committee. See also Banque Misr References 1867 births 1941 deaths 20th-century Egyptian economists Egyptian pashas Egyptian nationalists Egyptian industrialists 20th-century Egyptian businesspeople Egyptian newspaper founders