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.
Mada Masr, a progressive online news organization, is pushing against the shrinking space for political debate.
A psychologist, known for his study of evil, is fascinated by what was good in the Arab Spring.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
To respond to a stark gender disparity in foreign affairs, a new non-profit works to get more women miked, quoted, and bylined.
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.
The country faces an education crisis of what may well be historic proportions.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
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.
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.
Mohamed Tawfik is the Egyptian ambassador to the United States. Literature, as much as diplomacy, is Tawfik’s passion.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
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.
Without a more consistent and effective implementation of the policy, the promise of a better American relationship with the Muslim World will remain elusive.
The American political system is broken, and political journalism has played a part in that failure.
Magda Mostafa, an architecture professor at the American University in Cairo, is a pioneer in practical solutions to the challenges of living with autism.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
I have to wonder if we Egyptians are traveling backwards in a time capsule. Lately, we seem to have arrived in the 1960s.
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.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
