Noura play, in which Raffo gives an exceptional performance, brings the experience of Iraqi refugees to the stage through the compelling story of Noura and her Chaldean Catholic family who fled their home in Mosul, Iraq eight years ago to the United States. Inspired by the stories and lives of Arab-American women and loosely based on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Noura investigates definitions of home and tells the story of how we try to balance our past with the present.

Delight in music by the highly lauded Lions of Cairo and the Cairo Guitar Collective. Enjoy a unique collaboration between AUC music majors and the Cairo Festival Orchestra – the University’s professional orchestra in residence – in an uplifting Concerto-Aria concert.

Bernard O'Kane, professor at AUC's Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, documents historic inscriptions found on centuries-old Islamic monuments. For the first time, thousands of inscriptions are recorded on a database and made accessible to scholars from different disciplines, in an effort to preserve narratives of the past.