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February 25, 2025

Launch of ATHAR: AUC’s Teacher Hub for Advancement and Reflection

AUC launched ATHAR in an effort to and invest in the region’s education system by empowering educators and engaging them in activities targeting their daily challenges.

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Man wearing green vest and hairnet packs a box with food supplies in a warehoues

January 28, 2025

The Power of Volunteering

AUC graduate students made a field visit to the Egyptian Food Bank for a course called Volunteer Management, taught by Professor Shahjahan Bhuiyan.

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A group of students and faculty standing together on Qursaya Island with plastic bags next to them that have trash colelcted from the Nile

January 12, 2025

Clean Up and Build Up: Architecture Students Design Sustainable Solutions for a Greener Cairo

Students engage hands-on with local community of fishermen and farmers at Qursaya Island.

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Images of participants in the workshop signing Egyptian Sign Language while watching the instructor, overlayed on a presentation background of the Arabic alphabet in sign language

January 20, 2025

AUC's New Sign Language Workshop

A new workshop offered by the School of Continuing Education, Basics of Egyptian Sign Language, aims to address common misconceptions about deaf people and equip participants with basic sign language skills, enabling communication, inclusivity and accessibility.

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A man and a woman explore a wooden plank translating the Arabic alphabet into braille

December 4, 2024

Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities

AUC celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Tahrir Square through the AccessAUC initiative.

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Woman in a red suit jacket and white hijab smiles in front of a red background

April 15, 2024

Yes, She Can: Continuing Education Success Story

Marwa Khalil, a 38-year old mother of three and entrepreneur, is a recent graduate of the She Can program.

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March 13, 2024

Beyond Refuge: Graduate Diploma Combines Refugee Studies, Psychology

AUC is relaunching the graduate diploma, Psychosocial Interventions for Forced Migrants and Refugees, set to begin in Fall 2024.

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A woman in a green shirt stands in front of red theater chairs, a student in a gray shirt in the foreground

February 5, 2024

Sexual Harassment Education: How Different Are We?

Recently honored by Times Higher Education for the Msh Zanbik project, Professor Jillian Campana examines cross-cultural differences in sexual harassment education.

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Students pose at various volunteering opportunities through the Volunteer Management course

January 21, 2023

Students Explore Volunteer Management Through Winter Course

Graduate students in the Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy programs as well as undergraduate seniors majoring in political science and anthropology engaged

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a woman in an orange shirt speaks with students in the yard of a school

January 16, 2024

Public School Initiative Honored by Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education celebrated the success of the School University Partnership (SUP) at the Abou El Enein school in New Cairo.

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January 9, 2024

Alumna Appointed UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza

Alumna Sigrid Kaag '85 was recently appointed UN senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza.

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Students sit in a classroom working on brightly colored electronics

November 21, 2023

Empowering Engineers, Digitizing Heritage

AUC and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) have joined forces on Egypt’s Digital Heritage Portal project, alongside providing expert electronics traini

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Launch of ATHAR: AUC’s Teacher Hub for Advancement and Reflection

The Power of Volunteering

Clean Up and Build Up: Architecture Students Design Sustainable Solutions for a Greener Cairo

AUC's New Sign Language Workshop

Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Yes, She Can: Continuing Education Success Story

Beyond Refuge: Graduate Diploma Combines Refugee Studies, Psychology

Sexual Harassment Education: How Different Are We?

Students Explore Volunteer Management Through Winter Course

Public School Initiative Honored by Ministry of Education

Alumna Appointed UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza

Empowering Engineers, Digitizing Heritage

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