With his thesis project premiering at the Cairo International Film Festival, Mark Ayman '25 looks back on his time at AUC that shaped his voice as a storyteller, guiding him from student filmmaker to a rising director.

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened it doors on November 1, 2025. AUC community members weighed in on what the opening means for Egypt, Egyptology, and the world.

A faculty member is part of a collective historical narrative on Arab women designers.

Fatima Hussein ’20 is an architect, jewelry designer and entrepreneur.

Learning Arabic through CASA@AUC, Aleksandar Columby brings his love of music, heritage and the arts to AUC Tahrir Square.

It was 1964 when Leila Saad first fell in love with theatre and launched an acting career that has lasted 61 years (and counting).

AUC is preserving and digitizing a rare collection of newly acquired Arabic and Islamic manuscripts.

Discover how ancient Egypt’s simple, local diet still shapes staples on Egyptian tables today.

Once erased from history books, feminist icon Doria Shafik and her work live on at AUC through the archives.

AUC’s School of Continuing Education (SCE) recently graduated the inaugural cohort of Egypt’s first Film Industry Business Certificate, a program that launched this summer in partnership with the international Silver Screen Film School in Romania.

Faculty recommend popular and off-the-beaten-path Islamic monuments in Cairo and tell us the history behind them.