School of Humanities and Social Sciences News

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.

The American presidential election — Trump versus Harris — is around the corner. AUC Faculty broke the politics down to help us understand the differences between both candidates when it comes to Middle East policy, Arab American interests, and U.S. domestic policy.

Rashid Khalidi shares ideas about the inevitability of resistance, the need for Arab states to take more action, and the recent birth of a Western narrative for the Palestinian cause.

AUC faculty and alumni interviewed 18 Palestinian journalists in Gaza to produce an award-winning research paper on war reporting.

One year into the war in Gaza, an AUC faculty panel addressed the humanitarian crisis and the future of Gaza. Moderated by Khaled Ezzelarab, the event featured Rabab El Mahdi, Karim Haggag, and Hani Sayed.

Students in the Center for Arabic Student Abroad (CASA@AUC) program are back to taking classes in AUC’s oldest building, the historic palace.

The History Department held a full-day student conference entitled History Day as part of the week-long Annual Conference for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Entrepreneurship and Creative Achievement (EURECA).

In the capstone seminar, "The Marriage Crisis and the Middle East," students perform before their peers and professors historical re-enactments based on early 20th-century Egyptian court cases.

In Lebanon, more than 1,000 people have been killed and 6,300 injured by Israeli strikes in an expansion of the war in Gaza. We asked AUC faculty members who study the region to share their thoughts.

Three Columbia University graduate students decided to spend a semester abroad at AUC. Find out what brought them from New York to Cairo.