After a decade of planning and five years of construction, The American University in Cairo has relocated to a new 260-acre, $400-million campus in New Cairo, Egypt. Remaining at its historic campus in downtown Cairo will be the university's School of Continuing Education, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, law department and management center.

An international team of architects created the campus so that it would achieve both harmony and diversity within a framework that unifies the essential components of the new university:

• The academic heart of the campus, including the library and all the facilities for teaching, research, and intellectual interaction
• A campus center for all aspects of non-academic student life and also for AUC conferences and public-lecture series
• Residential housing
• Spacious indoor and outdoor athletic, sports and recreational facilities
• A public, 20-acre park and civic intersection where the university meets and engages New Cairo with community spaces for events and performances
• Landscaping and gardens that embody the university's commitment to environmental stewardship and extend the classroom into the natural world