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Madalyn Lamont Literary Award Ceremony: Samboozies—an Aesthetics of Junk

Join Samia Mehrez, professor emerita of Arabic literature at The American University in Cairo, as she takes us on a journey through her newest book and artwork.

Nov

Closing Events: TRACES

3:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Celebrate TRACES’ closing events with art exhibitions and evening concerts, marking the launch of a digital archive documenting the project’s work.

Dec

School of Continuing Education 100 Years Forward: SCALE Impact Event Invitation

4:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The School of Continuing Education (SCE) at The American University in Cairo is delighted to invite you to the Closing Event of SCE’s Centennial, featuring: Graduation of the 100 Scholarships Community & Partner Exhibition Zone Launch of SCALE This special celebration will take place on: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 AUC Tahrir Campus (Ewart Hall & Fountain Area) This mile...

Jun

AUC SHE Can Graduation: SHE Builds Beyond 2025

3:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join us as we celebrate the incredible journey of 120 inspiring female entrepreneurs from Cairo, Tanta, Alexandria and the Red Sea graduates of the SHE Can program, a powerful initiative dedicated to empowering women and advancing entrepreneurship across Egypt. This year’s theme, SHE Builds Beyond, honors the power of women to build beyond limitations and stereotypes, beyond economic challen...

May

Tewfik Doss Pasha Endowed Award Ceremony

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Tewfik Doss Pasha Endowed Award is an annual award given alternatively to the best thesis in English and Comparative Literature and Political Science. This year the award is given to the thesis entitled "The Romani People in the European Cultural Imagination: Alexander Pushkin, Prosper Merimee, and Virginia Woolf." by Nadya Siyam * the ceremony is closed to AUC community

May

George T. Scanlon Award Ceremony

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by an ARIC student each year. The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the university, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues, and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly. ...

Feb

Madalyn Lamont Literary Award Ceremony "حكايات لعالم آخر"

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join the 2025 Madalyn Lamont Literary Award ceremony with keynote by Mai Serhan: Stories For Another World حكايات لعالم آخر—reflect, reimagine and resist through storytelling.

Dec

The 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Award Ceremony

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press) is delighted to announce that the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2024 award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, at the historic Ewart Hall, AUC Tahrir Campus. This prestigious event celebrates outstanding contributions to contemporary Arabic literature and will be open to the public. Join us for an evening of literary ...

Dec

Voices of Change: Empowering Leadership For All

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join us in celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at AUC with a week full of insightful and interactive activities created by AUC students. Experience the world from different perspectives with an autism simulation, "Sensory Overload," and take part in hands-on workshops exploring sign language in the classroom, as well as simulations of OCD and ADHD. Get moving with ada...

May

Sameh Ismail's Artwork: Phenomenological and Transcendental Interpretations of Islamic Aesthetics

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Art is making; this has been the basic definition of art since Aristotle’s The complex relation among the maker, the act of making and the made ‘thing’/artwork constitutes the core of art theories and aesthetic philosophy. This talk attempts to interpret Sameh Ismail’s artwork, analyzing his orientation as a maker. Drawing on two philosophical traditions, phenomenology (Heidegger and ...