Oriental Hall, etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Policy and People at Egypt’s Global University
Saud Al-Faisal: Statesman Diplomat
By Nabil Fahmy / Fall 2015
Saudi Arabia’s longtime minister of foreign affairs, Prince Saud Al-Faisal passed away this Ramadan. He was among the kingdom’s most influential men. A former Egyptian foreign minister reflects on the Arab statesman and diplomat.
Egyptian Reporters Reloaded
Mada Masr, a progressive online news organization, is pushing against the shrinking space for political debate.
Everyday Heroes
A psychologist, known for his study of evil, is fascinated by what was good in the Arab Spring.
Oriental Hall, Etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Foreign Policy, Interrupted
To respond to a stark gender disparity in foreign affairs, a new non-profit works to get more women miked, quoted, and bylined.
Letter from China
The Beijing regime is nervous that digital technology in the form of social media and other tools is chipping away at the Communist Party’s authoritarian system of control.
Schooling Egypt
The country faces an education crisis of what may well be historic proportions.
Oriental Hall, Etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Media Policy and Freedom of Expression
By Nabil Fahmy / Spring 2015
Discussing “freedom of expression” in the same conversation with “media policy” may imply that they are mutually exclusive concepts, but that is a false premise.
A Better Citizen
By Rozina Ali / Winter 2015
Mahmoud El-Gamal will be forever nostalgic about his days as an economics undergraduate at the American University in Cairo. In July, he became the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Candygirl
Mohamed Tawfik is the Egyptian ambassador to the United States. Literature, as much as diplomacy, is Tawfik’s passion.
Oriental Hall, etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Arab World on the Precipice
By Nabil Fahmy / Winter 2015
Now more than any time in recent memory, the Arab World as a political entity is confronted with ominous threats and hair-raising domestic and regional challenges.
Barack Obama’s Lost Promise
By Magda Shahin / Winter 2015
Without a more consistent and effective implementation of the policy, the promise of a better American relationship with the Muslim World will remain elusive.
Reflections of a Media Critic
The American political system is broken, and political journalism has played a part in that failure.
Architecture for All
Magda Mostafa, an architecture professor at the American University in Cairo, is a pioneer in practical solutions to the challenges of living with autism.
Oriental Hall, etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Back to the Future
I have to wonder if we Egyptians are traveling backwards in a time capsule. Lately, we seem to have arrived in the 1960s.
Reimagining Limits
By Rozina Ali / Summer 2014
Since Ezzedine Choukri Fishere began publishing fiction in 1995, he has come out with six novels exploring themes from freedom and destiny to identity; critics have viewed his work as indictments against repression, injustice and suffering in Egypt.