University News

Graduate School of Education Attracts Policy Makers and International Scholars

Writing on the recent inauguration of AUC’s Graduate School of Education, Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, notes AUC’s role in Egypt and the region, and the potential it has to develop something original with the “most relevant global thinking about contemporary education issues, as well as educating exemplary professionals.”
From Where I Sit: Something New Under the Sun
Times Higher Education

Turkish Foreign Minister Discusses New Political Approach to the Middle East

In the inaugural lecture for School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Ahmet Davutoğlu, minister of foreign affairs for the Republic of Turkey, discussed the delicate balance between security and freedom, proactive diplomacy, and the evolution of the Middle East in a period of rapid globalization.
Turkish FM: Mideast Holds Special Place in Global Remodeling
Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review


Events

Dead Man's Cell Phone Play

An American comedy written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Frank Bradley illustrates the human connection in a fragmented, high-tech world. Dead Man’s Cell Phone takes audiences on a bizarre journey into memory, morality and redemption after the play’s protagonist answers a dead man's phone and becomes entangled in his strange relations.
The Gerhart Theater, AUC Center for the Arts
March 8 - 11
7:00 pm

"Old Delhi Bookshelf"

Kiran Desai, author of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for The Inheritance of Loss, will speak at AUC Downtown. Desai will discuss how the novel empowers us to mediate - and potentially to transcend - conflicting ideological positions related to nation and state.
Oriental Hall, AUC Downtown
March 13, 2010
6:00 pm