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Join award-winning playwright Heather Raffo for an artist talk at AUC’s Malak Gabr Arts Theater on February 18 followed by the opening of her hit, Off-Broadway play, Noura, at The Gerhart Theater. The play, in which Raffo gives an exceptional performance, brings the experience of Iraqi refugees to the stage through the compelling story of Noura and her Chaldean Catholic family who fled their home in Mosul, Iraq eight years ago to the United States.

Delight in music by the highly lauded Lions of Cairo and the Cairo Guitar Collective. The live concert showcases the classical music talents of AUC faculty musicians. Enjoy a unique collaboration between AUC music majors and the Cairo Festival Orchestra – the University’s professional orchestra in residence – in an uplifting Concerto-Aria concert. Listen to the live musical performances of Nesma Mahgoub ’13 and the AUC music program’s semi a cappella choir A caPop.

In tandem with AUC’s Centennial, 2020 marks 100 years since Sir K.A.C. Creswell, a British Orientalist knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1970, became officially active in Cairo. On that occasion, the RBSCL, which houses his massive collection of photographs and a portion of his personal papers, will curate an exhibition to highlight his contribution in founding the study of Islamic art and architecture and the documentation of Cairo’s monuments. The exhibit will feature rare photographs never seen or published before, aerial photographs of Historic Cairo, documents, original hand-drawn plans and photography tools.