Policy and People at Egypt’s Global University
Sister of the Rebels
Meet the sister of the rebels.
Opportunity of the Century?
By Nabil Fahmy / Summer 2019
Jared Kushner’s economic stimulus initiative to solve the Palestinian issue was introduced in the 80s and ended in failure.
Untold Futures
The American University in Cairo launched a massive research initiative that would ask Arab scholars and thinkers over the next three years to find answers to a crucial question: what does the future hold for the Middle East?
Arab Spring Revisited
By Nabil Fahmy / Spring 2019
From Algeria to Sudan, the time for good governance is now
The AI Guru
How Affectiva CEO and cofounder Rana el Kaliouby harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create social change
The Desert, a Resource Curse
By Leslie Cohen / Spring 2019
Could land be Egypt’s Dutch Disease?
The World To Be
World experts discuss future global developments such as the rise of Asia, the impact of demographic changes in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, and the role of the Global South in the world.
Rethinking the Two States
For scholar and diplomat Daniel Levy, this much is clear: until Israel loses its sense of impunity, the peace process goes nowhere
Witnesses of Peace
How did the insiders and diplomats who witnessed the Camp David proceedings experience those events?
Pompeo’s “Real New Beginning”?
In a speech which may have policy implications for the Trump Administration’s Middle East policy, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lays out plans for the region at the American University in Cairo.
Beating Hepatitis C
New detection system uses robotics to identify the disease, cutting down on time and human error
A Dangerous Coin Toss
For long-time scholar of American foreign policy, William Quandt, it’s still too hard to say what Trump wants in the Middle East
A Divided America
By Erin Hayes / Fall 2018
Why American Islamophobia seems to be declining in the age of Trump
Perceptions from Abroad
By Nabil Fahmy / Fall 2018
How to fight foreign perceptions that the Arab World is violent and in complete turmoil
Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly?
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
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.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo in Spring 2018.