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Policy and People at Egypt’s Global University

Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly?

By Elizabeth Lepro / Summer 2018

Can Tunisia serve as a model for Arab Spring countries?

Delusions of a Deal

By Nabil Fahmy / Summer 2018

Donald Trump claims he is the master of deal-making, but will his much-touted “Deal of the Century” be favorable to the Arabs and Palestinians?

The Lam-Alif Artist

By Jessie Steinhauer / Spring 2018

The work of award-winning Egyptian-Lebanese artist Bahia Shehab focuses on issues of identity and injustice.

Daughter of the Nile

By Nadeen Shaker / Spring 2018

A profile of Egyptian feminist and founder of Bint Al-Nil journal Doria Shafik.

Oriental Hall, etc.

By Roxanne Brook Vigil / Spring 2018

Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo in Spring 2018.

Is a Nuclearized Middle East Inevitable?

By Nabil Fahmy / Spring 2018

How to address the challenge of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

Death of the Blogosphere

By Elizabeth Lepro / Winter 2018

Egyptian bloggers, writing and reporting on the January 25 uprising, suddenly went offline after 2015. Why and where are they now?

Oriental Hall, etc.

By Leslie Cohen / Winter 2018

Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo in Winter 2018.

Time for a New World Order

By Nabil Fahmy / Winter 2018

The rise of populist governments worldwide is not the byproduct of winning or losing political systems, but rather of a failing world order.

Is Europe facing a crisis? There were two opposite views in “The Future of Europe,” the latest panel discussion in AUC’s Tahrir Dialogue series. Ambassador of France in Egypt Stéphane Romatet said that for the first time in over seventy years, Europe is experiencing a “deep internal crisis,” marked by the rise of Euroscepticism within political parties (skepticism and rejection of the European Union), the dismantling of its territory, and the crisis of federalism in countries like Belgium, » Read more about: Is Europe Facing a Crisis? »