Meredith Brand ’06 is a rhetoric and composition senior instructor, an archaeologist and an Egyptology alumna who is currently a co-director of the Wadi-el Hudi Expedition: an archaeological dig and survey documenting the remains of amethyst mines and traces of life in Egypt’s Eastern Desert since 2014.

Interim associate dean of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, Steve Urgola, reflects on his career.

Pioneering Egyptian Egyptologist Selim Bey Hassan's archives are preserved at AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library.

Visual arts faculty Maryam Taghavi brings Persian language and culture into focus through her global work.

AUC’s first public arts festival brought music, theatre, film, visual arts and creative workshops to New Cairo.

Librarian Eman Morgan debunks archiving myths, guiding access to AUC's Rare Books and Special Collections Library.

Arabic script takes form in the work of Mariem Abutaleb ’20, becoming rhythm, pattern and visual emotion where meaning is felt, not just read.

Across the AUC Tahrir CultureFest, four exhibitions utilized art and AI to reassemble Cairo through memory, identity and imagined futures

From AUC student to international director, Ahmed El Attar ’93 returns to revive the Falaki Mainstage Theater.

From the classroom to Egypt’s biggest stages, AUC Excellence Scholar David Maged keeps Cairo’s pulse alive, one beat at a time

Musicians and scholars at AUC debate innovation and heritage preservation as AI enters Arab music in a rapidly evolving landscape.