July 15, 2025 AUC Contributes to Groundbreaking International Study on Novel Factors Accelerating Aging Where you live can make you age several years faster, increasing the risk of cognitive and functional decline.
July 15, 2025 Journalism and Mass Communications Faculty, Alumni Receive International Recognition JRMC faculty and alumni have received international recognition for their work this summer.
July 9, 2025 Meet AUC's 2025 Faculty Merit Awardees AUC honored two faculty members during the June 2025 undergraduate commencement for their distinguished contributions to research and academic service at the University. This year’s winners are:
July 2, 2025 Faculty Takes Part in Landmark International Research Unraveling New Discoveries on Early Whales Professor Hesham Sallam co-authored the first documentation of the internal anatomy of amphibious whales that lived more than 40 million years ago.
June 23, 2025 Meet Husn Turki: 2025 Undergraduate Commencement Student Speaker An international student from Yemen, Husn Turki described her AUC experience studying biology as “surreal,” offering unparalleled opportunities in the region. Over the weekend, she spoke to her class at the June 2025 undergraduate commencement.
June 11, 2025 IMF, AUC Wrap Up First MENA Economic Research Conference Following two days of high-level dialogue and expert analysis, the inaugural IMF MENA Econom
June 3, 2025 AUC Researchers Link Rising Temperatures to Women’s Cancer in Landmark Study A new study correlating rising temperatures with women’s cancer in the Middle East recently attracted global media attention, seizing headlines in outlets like The Washington Post, Daily Mail, Fortune and more.
June 11, 2025 Leaving Egypt to Discover Egypt: The Unexpected Lessons of a Study Abroad When junior Marwan Shawwara moved to France to study at Sciences Po, he was prepared to step outside of his comfort zone and experience a typical semester abroad.
July 9, 2025 Brandeis Student Comes to AUC Allan Feldman is an economics and Middle East studies junior who came to AUC for exchange semester from Brandeis University this spring. With summer upon us, Feldman is still in Cairo, living and learning from the city's offerings.
June 3, 2025 Capstones Without Borders: AUC, Waterloo Partner for Research Innovation Imagine taking your studies across continents without ever leaving the classroom. That’s what a new AUC partnership seeks to allow for the University’s most tech-inclined. AUC is partnering with the University of Waterloo — Canada’s top-ranked university in computer science and engineering — for joint supervision of capstone projects for students.
May 26, 2025 AUCians at First Regional AFS Youth Assembly Earlier this month, 14 AUCians joined young changemakers from the MENA region at the first-ever Regional American Field Service (AFS) Youth Assembly in Cairo to tackle urgent issues like climate change, education and food security.
May 12, 2025 AUC Launches Egypt's First Process Safety Management Diploma for Energy Sector AUC, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and Methanex Egypt are collaborating to launch Egypt’s first Process Safety Management (PSM) professional diploma for the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors.
April 16, 2025 Tahrir CultureFest: Day in the Life of Student Performers “Port Said, Siwa, Upper Egypt — we learn about the cultures and dance traditions from Egypt’s different regions,” said Amira ElKouny ’18. “This event in Tahrir also has diversity in all the activities and even the audience.”
April 16, 2025 Tahrir CultureFest 2025: Voices of Cairo This year’s AUC Tahrir CultureFest had offerings for everyone. But beyond fun programming, the CultureFest, now in its second year, was a chance to build meaningful human connections and community for residents and visitors of Cairo, right in the heart of the city.
April 16, 2025 Tahrir CultureFest: Book Talk with Author and Photographer of ‘Bilhana’ Cookbook Freekeh eggplant salad topped with pickled onions and fresh seasonal raisins, all coated with date molasses: This tasty snack awaited attendees of the Tahrir CultureFest on Saturday at the Bilhana book talk by AUC Press.
