Midan

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

By Sarah El-Shaarawi
April 6, 2015 / Spring 2015

The country faces an education crisis of what may well be historic proportions.

Oriental Hall, Etc.

By Owain Richards
April 6, 2015 / Spring 2015

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

Media Policy and Freedom of Expression

By Nabil Fahmy
April 6, 2015 / 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
January 25, 2015 / 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

By Jonathan Guyer and Sarah El-Shaarawi
January 25, 2015 / Winter 2015

Mohamed Tawfik is the Egyptian ambassador to the United States. Literature, as much as diplomacy, is Tawfik’s passion.

Oriental Hall, etc.

By Owain Richards and Rozina Ali
January 25, 2015 / Winter 2015

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

Arab World on the Precipice

By Nabil Fahmy
January 25, 2015 / 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
January 25, 2015 / 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

By Danny Schechter
January 25, 2015 / Winter 2015

The American political system is broken, and political journalism has played a part in that failure.

Architecture for All

By Fernanda Uro Aboites
November 19, 2014 / Fall 2014

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.

By Aaron T. Rose and Rozina Ali
November 19, 2014 / Fall 2014

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

Back to the Future

By Laila El Baradei
November 19, 2014 / Fall 2014

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
July 16, 2014 / 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.

Oriental Hall, etc.

By Anny Gaul and Rozina Ali
July 16, 2014 / Summer 2014

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

Theory Y and Egypt’s Bureaucracy

By Laila El Baradei
July 16, 2014 / Summer 2014

If employees are treated with respect, fairness and equity, they will become committed to the organization. In the real world, it turned out not to be that simple, especially in our Egyptian public service organizations.