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American University in Cairo • 16 min read

AUC Board of Trustees reaffirms confidence in university administration against faculty, student vote

Mostafa Mohie | The university’s Senate voted to withdraw confidence from AUC President Ricciardone last week

14 February 2019

American University in Cairo • 24 min read

Talking colorful journalism

Mada in conversation with AUC Times about critical and curious journalism

7 September 2018

American University in Cairo • 10 min read

Expelled Yemeni AUC student given provisional UNHCR protection pending asylum application

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | Does AUC have the right to ask a former student, expelled for violations, to leave the country?

12 August 2018

American University in Cairo • 13 min read

Not all AUC students are rich

Mai Shams El-Din | Protests over rising tuition fees at AUC challenge misconceptions about the student body

18 January 2017

higher education • 13 min read

What happened to the social sciences in Egypt?

Mai Shams El-Din | The corporatization of education and restricted political environment has diminished Egypt's social sciences

15 January 2017

academic freedom • 10 min read

Informants at AUC?

Mai Shams El-Din | The independent AUC student newspaper has published an investigative report about informants on campus

21 December 2016

visual art • 36 min read

The permanent revolution: From Cairo to Paris with the Egyptian surrealists

Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani | Two independent exhibitions commemorate an important chapter of Egyptian Modernism.

11 November 2016

inflation • 9 min read

AUC students storm out of meeting with new president over tuition fee hikes

Angry AUC students vow to continue protests over tuition fee increases amid financial crisis.

7 November 2016

academic freedom • 7 min read

AUC remembers Giulio Regeni, protests university’s position on his murder

Mai Shams El-Din | A memorial service was held on Wednesday at the American University in Cairo (AUC) for Italian PhD student

25 February 2016

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Opinion

AUC faculty and alum (listed below)

On Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s visit to Tel Aviv University

AUC faculty members assert Ibrahim's visit is a betrayal of the Egyptian and Palestinian people

23 January 2018

Dina Hussein

Galal Amin: A master of the declining art of teaching

Remembering Galal Amin not only as an intellectual, but a captivating teacher

27 September 2018

Ayah Abo-Basha

#FreeBebo: Campaign to free arrested AUC student

“As a professor, there’s nothing more difficult than to enter a classroom to an empty seat — the

9 May 2016

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News

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AUC attempts to placate student anger, but still bans the niqab

19 December 2017

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Update: AUC workers end strike after administration files report

26 July 2017

American University in Cairo • 8 min read

AUC cleaners strike against nonrenewal of contracts

19 July 2017

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AUC students resort to Egypt’s judiciary against tuition increase

19 February 2017

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AUC and Cairo University drop in QS international rankings

6 September 2016

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Former US ambassador Francis Ricciardone named new AUC president

3 March 2016

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