What was the name of the first modern Egyptian mission of students sent to Europe, dispatched by Muhammad Ali in 1826 to study Western sciences and military techniques?

• A The Paris Mission ✓
• B The London Cohort
• C The Turin Expedition
• D The Vienna Delegation

The 1826 Paris Mission, supervised by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, sent 44 Egyptian students to France to study engineering, medicine, and military sciences — al-Tahtawi himself returned to found the School of Languages (Al-Alsun) and translated hundreds of European works into Arabic, kickstarting the Arab renaissance (Nahda).