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09
Apr

Locating Connection at the Doorstep: Making Water and Wastewater Systems Work

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AUC New Cairo

The SOAN Conversation Series in the Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology Department and the Institute of Gender and Women's Studies (IGWS) is co-sponsoring the second talk of the spring semester featuring Dr. Tessa Farmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies and the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at IGWS. She will be discussing how people locate the social an...

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09
Apr

History Hash Outs: From Studying History to Working at the UN and Beyond

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AUC New Cairo

By Menna El Shiati'13, Chief Implementation Officer, Community Systems Foundation El Shiati is the Chief Implementation officer at Community Systems Foundation, where she spearheads various projects to enhance data systems and drive evidence-based programming and advocacy for global development partners. With extensive expertise in strategic programme support and technical assistance, she has ...

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07
May

History Hash Outs — Archival Grains and Ghosts in Egyptian Railways and Beyond

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AUC New Cairo

Xiaoyue Yasin Li is currently Assistant Professor of History and MENA Studies at Tulane University, USA. His research focuses on 19th-and 20th-century Egypt, science and technology, critical political economy, colonialism and postcolonialism. He is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled Taming an Iron Horse: Capital, Politics, and Rail Infrastructure in Egypt.

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16
Apr

History Hash Outs — Listening to the Past: Street Hawkers and Cairo’s Lost Sounds

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AUC New Cairo

Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University’s department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020). Street Sounds was a co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2021 Award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyp...