AUC's ability to access and contribute to fields that are especially relevant to the region play a vital role in placing AUC in the center of world communication and understanding.

In addition, academic conferences and other scholarly activities enable AUC's faculty and students to meet the challenge of becoming and remaining major contributors in the larger academic world.

We seek financial supporters who are committed to strengthen and enhance these relevant regional and cultural academic programs.

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Academic Programs

Postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law

AUC’s postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law seeks to address the current crisis in Arab legal education by providing its students with the highest standards of academic excellence.

Support opportunities:

• Graduate LL.M. fellowships can make a difference in the life of a deserving student as well as provide Egypt and the Arab world with legal professionals committed to the advancement of good governance and the rule of law.
• Endowed LLM Professorship
• Endowed Human Rights Lecture Series

Middle East Studies

AUC’s program in Middle East studies can compete with the best of its peer programs in the United States. The program’s graduates represent a diverse and international group of students, many of whom pursue successful careers in business, journalism, public service and academia.

Support opportunities:

• Graduate fellowships are the key to attracting and retaining the best and the brightest, as well as guaranteeing the program’s rigorous and dynamic academic environment.
• Endowed Professorship
• Permanent Directorship

 Egyptology Graduate Program

A generous endowment will allow AUC to expand its current Egyptology curriculum and create a graduate program that will offer students a solid background and competitive edge in the field. 

Support opportunities:

• Endowed Fellowship
• Endowed Professorship

The Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies

The Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (IGWS) is an academic research institute and a graduate teaching center for scholars, researchers and graduate students interested in gender issues in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

The research institute serves as a resources nexus through which research projects, conferences, workshops, policy debates and educational programs on gender issues are engaged.

The graduate center provides students with an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective in GWST with a special emphasis on the Middle East and North African region. 

 The Petroleum and Energy Engineering Program

The Petroleum and Energy Engineering program will provide a strong educational foundation for regional and international students looking to specialize in the diversified operations of the petroleum, gas and energy industries. A five-year undergraduate curriculum has been created that builds on established petroleum engineering programs in leading academic institutions in the United States.

Support opportunities:

• Endowed professorship
• Undergraduate scholarship

Coptic Studies Program

Thanks to the support of donors, each semester AUC invites a distinguished scholar to spearhead and chair the Coptic studies program. Today we aspire to move beyond the one-semester visiting professorship to the hiring of a permanent faculty member, who will oversee the systematic development of the Coptic Studies program. By increasing our current endowment, the program can attract top scholars and invigorate and strengthen the Coptic Studies offerings.

Support opportunities:

• Through an endowed lecture series, AUC can put students, faculty and the local community in contact with leading experts and academicians in the field of Coptic Studies.  Scholars from around the world will be invited to campus each semester to share their research and insight, fostering dialog and intellectual exchange in this unique and valuable field.
• An endowed professorship for the Coptic Studies Program will help attract the best professors, thereby strengthening the program and improving the quality of instruction.

Academic Research Centers

The Islamic Architecture Archive and Resource Center AUC hopes to establish a unique, state-of-the-art repository of regional architectural artifacts that will serve as an indispensable tool for supporting education, cultural appreciation and architectural awareness.

The Islamic Architectural Center will be dedicated to the preservation of the rich and diverse heritages of the Muslim world especially as expressed in their distinctive architecture and architectural methods.  With the help of international experts from MIT and Harvard and with the aid of modern technologies, AUC can create a true center of excellence and a comprehensive resource easily accessible to a multitude of users throughout the region and the world.  This ambitious initiative aims to:

• House, conserve and archive valuable holdings of plans, pictures and manuscripts documenting Islamic architectural traditions using the most advanced and scientific archival methods.
• Foster cross-cultural understanding and enhance awareness of the aesthetic value and practical potential of Islamic architectural building methods through dissemination and outreach activities. 
•  Bring together the architectural community in North Africa, Asia and Muslim communities around the world.
• Create a global architectural resource open to students and scholars of Islamic architecture and easily accessible from anywhere around the world through ArchNet

Science & Technology Research Center

The Department of Biology at AUC is in the process of initiating a research project in Egypt to investigate the link between Campylobacter jejuni, an enteric pathogen and a tumor known as MALT lymphoma. The study will be conducted by AUC Professors of Biology. The purpose of the study is to develop  a broader understanding of the role of bacteria in cancer development and to provide insight into preventative measures and altered treatment strategies for the vast majority of MALT lymphoma patients in the country and the region.

 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research

The Annual Conference in American Studies and Research will provide an opportunity for AUC and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research to invite leading scholars, diplomats, authors and political figures to AUC to examine important issues affecting the region and the United States. The conference will have a different theme each year, always with the aim of opening the minds of students and local community members and encouraging them to think more deeply and constructively about contemporary regional and global issues.

The American Studies Endowed Lecture Series will facilitate interaction between students, faculty and local community members and leading experts in the field of American studies. Scholars from around the world will be invited to campus to share their experiences, research and insight, fostering the kind of dialogue and intellectual exchange that distinguishes AUC as a world-class university.

Center for Electronic Journalism

The Adham Center on the new campus will house several specialized facilities including the TV Studio, Digital Newsroom, Radio studio, Training facility and Sony Gallery. Together these facilities will advance the center’s outreach functions and provide students with invaluable hands-on training and practical experience.

It is paramount that these facilities are equipped with the latest technologies and state-of-the-art equipment. Updating the center’s facilities is critical to our continued success and to maintaining the caliber of instruction. It will allow us to ensure that our students receive quality training they can use at the region’s top stations.

John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement

 The John D. Gerhart Center has a dual focus: to consolidate university activities aimed at encouraging engaged citizenship and service, and to promote enhanced philanthropic giving in the Arab region.

Contributions to the center will foster its role in promoting philanthropy across the region and will provide needed funding for the center’s on-going activities.

Performing and Visual Arts Lab

There is enormous potential for a program which would provide training in modern digital music technology and provide qualified personnel for this growing industry. Such training is currently unavailable in any academic institution in Egypt or in the Middle East. A major in music technology at AUC would allow students to study music as a humanities discipline within a full liberal arts curriculum as well as provide students with the competitive edge they need to excel.