AUC Hosts Egypt's First World Urban Campaign Assembly
Held in Egypt for the first time, AUC is hosting the UN-Habitat’s biennial World Urban Campaign Assembly on the future of urban planning.
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Upcoming Events
9
Nov
Prayer and Devotion in Ottoman Egypt: The Making of al-Jazuli’s Best-Seller, Dala’il al-Khayrat.
6:00 pm
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7:00 pm
AUC Tahrir Square
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9
Nov
Prayer and Devotion in Ottoman Egypt: The Making of al-Jazuli’s Best-Seller, Dala’il al-Khayrat.
6:00 pm
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7:00 pm
AUC Tahrir Square
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17OctDowntown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
Oct 17 - Nov 101:00 pmAUC Tahrir Square -
26OctDesign for Resistance
Oct 26 - Nov 3010:00 amAUC Tahrir Square -
4NovMedRX Exhibition
Nov 4 - Nov 141:00 pmAUC New Cairo -
10NovThe U.S. Presidential Elections: What Is the Impact on a Changing Middle East?
6:00 pm- 8:00 pmAUC Tahrir Square -
11NovThe Middle East:A Changing Regional Landscape?
1:00 pm- 2:30 pmAUC New Cairo -
11NovKant and the Self-Conscious Form of Rational Faith
7:00 pm- 9:00 pmAUC Tahrir Square -
12NovBodies, Spaces and Senses of the Present and Past
10:00 am- 6:00 pmAUC New Cairo -
16NovSufism in Ottoman Egypt – Historiography, Sources and Methodology
6:00 pm- 7:00 pmAUC Tahrir Square -
17NovArabic in a Turbulent World
1:00 pm- 2:00 pmAUC New Cairo -
18NovArabic Language and Identity
6:00 pm- 8:00 pmAUC New Cairo -
20NovLanguage is not Neutral
11:30 am- 1:00 pmAUC New Cairo -
24NovA Social Diplomatic History of the Senegambia Confederation, 1982-1989
1:00 pm- 2:00 pmAUC New Cairo
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HUSS News
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U.S. Elections: What to Watch
The American presidential election — Trump versus Harris — is around the corner. AUC Faculty broke the politics down to help us understand t...
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10 Takeaways from Rashid Khalidi’s Talk on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi speaks on Palestine at AUC, sharing ideas about the inevitability of resistance, the need for Arab states to take more action...
AUC Hosts Egypt's First World Urban Campaign Assembly
Held in Egypt for the first time, AUC is hosting the UN-Habitat’s biennial World Urban Campaign Assembly on the future of urban planning.
U.S. Elections: What to Watch
The American presidential election — Trump versus Harris — is around the corner. AUC Faculty broke the politics down to help us understand t...
10 Takeaways from Rashid Khalidi’s Talk on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi speaks on Palestine at AUC, sharing ideas about the inevitability of resistance, the need for Arab states to take more action...
Why HUSS?
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HUSS in Motion
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Expert Express: Wael El Mahallawy
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Expert Express: John Hoey
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#PeopleOfAUC: Student Creates Award-Winning Podcast Through Audio Production Class
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Ahlan Wa Sahlan: A Warm Greeting to Our New, Returning Students
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Visual Arts Students Tackle Social Issues Through Creative Expression
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Film Major
Program Director and Professor Malek Khouri, gives a short brief about AUC’s film undergraduate program.
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AUC Rising Stars: Tamima, Shahd, & Ali
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The Shop: An AUC Community Collaboration
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International Women's Day 2024
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Meet Judith, AUC’s Driven Envoy
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Faculty at the Forefront: Music Technology Professor Creates a Digital Symphony at AUC #PeopleOfAUC
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The ‘Power to Achieve’ – Meet AUC Excellence Scholar Jowairya Soliman
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Music Major Makes Major Strides
HUSS Publications
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Alif is an international peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that appears annually in the spring and publishes critical scholarship in Arabic, English and French.
Cairo Papers in Social Science
Cairo Papers in Social Science has been in existence since 1977 and became an e-journal in 2015. It is a monograph series that publishes material related to development in the Middle East and to issues and problems of concern to the region.
Khamasin
Intended to serve as a forum for learning and dialogue within the AUC community and beyond, Khamasin responds to a desire voiced by both students and faculty to encourage a community of exchange at the departmental and school levels and to reach out to a larger readership on contemporary issues of social and political importance.