School of Humanities and Social Sciences News

Professor Ramy Aly looks to contemporary Egyptian hair culture to give insight into how race functions on a social level in Egypt.

Professor Ramy Aly looks to contemporary Egyptian hair culture to give insight into how race functions on a social level in Egypt.

Meet our faculty and student awardees who were honored at the 2024 graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies for their outstanding achievements.

To picture ancient Coptic society, you have to look at how each piece of their daily lives wove together. but for professor Mennat-Allah El Dorry, there is something special about studying something everyone has a deep connection to: food.

Graphic design seniors are showcasing their graduation projects at the Command X (Cmd X) exhibition, currently on display at the Sharjah Gallery in AUC New Cairo, tackling themes on cultural heritage, gender equality and environmental protection while offering viable solutions through art. This is the 10th class of graphic design students to graduate from AUC since the program’s inception in 2011.

AUC faculty member has uncovered a “never-before-studied” source on the courtly life of Abbasid Baghdad, told through the eyes of a vizier from Mosul in northern Iraq.

Looking at cross-cultural interactions through the lens of fiction, Shahrazad's Gift dives into the perspectives of the characters.

AUC collaborates with Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative and UCL to undertake initiatives focused on Alzheimer's disease.

Cairo Design Week highlighted and celebrated artists through events, competitions and dynamic exhibitions.

AUC is relaunching the graduate diploma, Psychosocial Interventions for Forced Migrants and Refugees, set to begin in Fall 2024.

Effective methods of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) incorporate both communication and creativity to address the complexities of the Arabic language.