Dame Minouche Shafik to Speak at AUC This year’s annual Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture features Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the first woman in the school’s history to hold this position.
March 11, 2019 Celebrating Egypt's 1919 Revolution To commemorate Egypt's 1919 Revolution, AUC hosted a day packed with events at its historic Tahrir Square campus to discussed the eruption of the 1919 revolution; the impactful role of women; and the aftermath and the socio-economic and public forces landscape at the time.
Haydy Morsy heads to the Tokyo Olympics Haydy Morsy, an AUC sophomore and pentathlete, won first place at the 2019 Pentathlon African Championships last month, qu
Student and Alumna Awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships The Career Center is pleased to announce that Serage Amatory, graduate student and Radwa Hamed '17, were among 68 students selected for the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship out of an applicant pool of 4,424.
AUC Students Win First Place in the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition An AUC team made up of four students from the School of Business and the School of Sciences and Engineering won first place in the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition (EngComm) in Montreal, Canada.
A Home for 50 Years Shahira El Sawy (MA ’65, MBA ’91), dean of libraries and learning technologies, nostalgically recalls the day she came to AUC more than 50 years ago.
February 24, 2019 No Tuition Increase in 2019-2020 Academic Year in USD Terms The American University in Cairo is pleased to announce that the 2019-2020 academic year tuition for Egyptian students will remain equal to the current tuition as expressed in USD. Going forward, AUC will publish tuition in USD.
The American University in Cairo Announces Appointment of Mahmoud Abdallah as Senior Advisor to the President for Enterprise Risk Management and Strategy The American University in Cairo announced today that Mahmoud Abdallah, a world-renowned expert in the insurance and financial industries and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MISR Insurance Holding Company and Executive Vice President of American Re
Centennial Launch Highlight of Trustees Meeting in Cairo AUC’s Board of Trustees Cairo meeting this month coincided with the University’s centennial celebration kickoff and the inauguration of the Tahrir Cultural Center, as well as the public launch of AUC’s Centennial Campaign: A New Century of Impact, in honor of the University’s 100th&nbs
Entrepreneurial Roadmap in Egypt While Egypt’s entrepreneurship ecosystem still ranks low compared to global averages, there is a positive improvement trend, albeit slow.
February 25, 2019 100 Years of the Caravan Exhibit The Caravan began in 1925 and was originally called The AUC Review. In its centennial year, AUC is honoring the well-established student publication, hosting a 100 Years of the Caravan -- opening February 17 in The Photographic Gallery.
February 25, 2019 A New Century of Impact: AUC Centennial Campaign Launches, Scholarship Students Reflect on AUC Experience AUC launched the Centennial Campaign: A New Century of Impact, which has raised 70 percent of its $100 million target.
AUC Gives 100 At AUC’s centennial launch, the Tahrir Cultural Center wasn’t the only new initiative the University unveiled. The historic February 9 celebration also marked the kickoff of the Give100 campaign.