Background
His father Habib Ayrout was a Lebanese-Egyptian architect practicing in Cairo, 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 (Cairo suburb). French 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 and is regarded as a major work on the subject.
He was a noted advocate for land reform in Egypt.