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Global Village: Legal Challenges and Opportunities with a Focus on Egypt

An event that focuses on the UN Charter and International law based on the post World War II paradigm, hosted by Founding Dean Nabil Fahmy with Jason Becket, assistant Professor moderating and discussing our guest speaker Ramy Bassily

Nov

The Fragmentation of International Lawyers

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

In this webinar, Dr. Beckett argues that the lack of materiality in Public International Law (PIL) engenders an unbearable mass of ?legally cognizable materials?, huddled indiscriminately together; and not subject to any authoritative ranking or evaluation. Thus we have no right to expect our analyses to lead to coherent results. PIL is not actually a thing, but a conflictual mass of discrete c...

Nov

Mercenaries in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: The Rise of Proxy Wars

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

In this webinar Dr MacLeod, a member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries, will examine the emergence, use, and role of modern mercenaries in 21st century armed conflicts and their impacts on human rights and international humanitarian law. It will consider in particular the use of mercenaries by countries not a party to a conflict in so-called ?proxy wars? and some of the geopolit...

Oct

GAPP Tahrir Dialogue (94): Turkey's Regional Policies

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Online

From ?zero problems? in its regional relations in the 2000s, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) led Turkey to intervene in Syria, Iraq, and Libya in the 2010s. In the same decade, Turkey also actively engaged in an ideological confrontation in the region. In the early 2020s, Turkey seems to at least partially retreat to more accommodating attitudes. The Tahrir Dialogue 94 will discuss the ...

Oct

Land of Unrealized Dreams Exhibition

Oct 5 – Oct 3

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Land of Unrealized Dreams is a duo exhibition featuring works by emerging photographers Ali Zaraay and Ahmad Gaber. Both photographers embarked on separate journeys to study abroad when the Covid 19 pandemic hit, derailing their plans.

Feb

GAPP Tahrir Dialogue (91) Special Webinar Series- "U.S.-Arab Relations"

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Online

The School of Global Affairs and Public Policy will hold its 91st Tahrir Dialogue Event titled "U.S.- Arab Relations" Doubts exist about the priority that the new Biden administration will give to the Middle East and its lingering problems. The approaches that the administration will adopt towards these problems have also been the subject of much debate. From the Israeli-Palestinian, Syrian,...

Global Village: Legal Challenges and Opportunities with a Focus on Egypt

The Fragmentation of International Lawyers

Mercenaries in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: The Rise of Proxy Wars

GAPP Tahrir Dialogue (94): Turkey's Regional Policies

Land of Unrealized Dreams Exhibition

GAPP Tahrir Dialogue (91) Special Webinar Series- "U.S.-Arab Relations"

AUC New Cairo

AUC Tahrir Square

New York Office