About Us

I have been involved in providing educational services across the MENA region all my professional life.

 

My father, Khalil Sayegh, established the Sayegh Group of companies in Lebanon 1944 with the strategic aim to bring the very best of western education to the countries of the Arab world.

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Over subsequent decades, he created one of the largest educational publishers in the Middle East, ranging across primary, secondary and tertiary education.  He worked with leading UK book publishers such as Pearson Education and Longman, in both English and Arabic. Other key activities of his companies included extensive reference book and dictionary publishing and working with educational ministries in the region to develop new national educational syllabi and new assessment methodologies.

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 www.sayegh1944.com  details the full range of current operations in 15 offices across 11 countries which is now run by my brother, Habib Sayegh.

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In 2004 I established my own company to foster successful academic collaborations to provide degree programmes in the region. As the strategic partner of Edinburgh Business School, the Graduate School of Business at Heriot-Watt University for the last 16 years, my company EBSArabworld Ltd. has recruited over 7,000 students to study postgraduate business subjects through local study. Students have successfully completed their degrees in both English and Arabic and through both distance learning and collaborative provision with local institutions.  

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I have identified and facilitated academic collaborations between Edinburgh Business School and over 6 approved learning partners across Egypt, Jordan, and a campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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In 2018 I established a new company, Transnational Education Alliances Ltd. to provide consultancy and advice to other UK institutions wishing to collaborate with MENA universities. In 2018 this company was retained by University of London International Programmes to assist in the region, and in 2019 enabled a formal contact between the University of London and a new university in Egypt, called European University in Egypt (EUE, with a portfolio of 15 undergraduate programmes including programmes directed by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Goldsmiths College.

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My strategic aim is to use my experience and my networks to help create a limited number of successful academic collaborations between like-minded institutions in the UK and the Arab World.

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I manage a complement of full-time staff, who are all bi-lingual and based in my own offices in the centre of Beirut. I travel extensively in the region and am a frequent visitor to the UK.

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Marie-Betsy Sayegh

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CEO and owner, EBS Arab World Ltd,

CEO and owner, Transnational Education Alliances Ltd

CEO and owner, Arab International Education Ltd