ARIC Annual Events

With the generous support of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, the Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations hosts the annual Bayard Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Arabic Studies. Established in 1987, this program allows the department to regular host distinguished scholars to visit AUC and deliver public lectures to the university community and the wider scholarly and intellectual community of Cairo. Visiting professors typically spend a week at the department and interact with our graduate students and faculty. Previous visitors have included the late Edward Said and many leading scholars in our field.

The Annual History Seminar started in the early nineties on a small and informal scale within the department of ARIC and aimed at ARIC students. Eventually, it expanded and targeted young historians from the national universities in Egypt. It has since then become one of the cultural landmarks of Cairo, and a forum for young scholars to meet for exciting intellectual and social exchanges. Over the years it has provided a generation of young scholars opportunities to broaden their intellectual horizons and benefit from presenting their work before a supportive audience. The Seminar encourages multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of Egyptian and Arab history and has focused on novel readings and revisions of social, economic and cultural histories.