School of Humanities and Social Sciences | The American University in Cairo

Join Maria Elena Paniconi for a talk exploring forced migration narratives in contemporary Sudanese and Eritrean Arabic literature today.

Philosophy Spring 2026 Information Session

Join us to learn about the Philosophy Department’s Spring 2026 courses. Professors will introduce each course, offering insights into the topics, approaches, and how they connect with your own questions and interests.

4th SEA Student Conference: Navigating Limits: Relations, Space and the Making of Subjects

10:00 am

The 4th SEA annual student conference brings together the work of students in our undergraduate and graduate programs around the themes of Navigating Limits and the Making of Social Subjects. Students will present their research throughout the day and engage in conversation across the disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology and Egyptology on subjects ranging from music and literature, ritual an...

The StAr-Doc Project: Applying Digital Methods to the Documentation of Archaeological Pottery

Ceramics are a key component of archaeology, telling us about dating, room use, as well as revealing aspects of daily and ritual life. Recording ceramics accurately is crucial to archaeological work. This lecture explores a novel, state-of-the-art way of documenting ceramics using virtual modelling. Speaker: Cristina Mondin Cristina Mondin obtained both her master’s degree and PhD in Arc...

Dec

Cosmopolitan Belonging: Reading Gustave Flaubert’s “Carnets de Voyage” Beyond “Orientalism”

Rather than portraying Gustave Flaubert’s Egyptian sojourn as a paradigmatic instance of Orientalism, this talk foregrounds a transhistorical cosmopolitan disposition in his work and proposes a rereading of the 1849–50 "Carnets de voyage".

Dec

Department of Applied Linguistics and Educational Studies Lunch and Talks

12:30 pm

Welcome to the Department of Applied Linguistics and Educational Studies, where research and teaching transform lives Join Us for Lunch and Talks We invite you to become part of our dynamic community, where every conversation is an opportunity to learn, and every classroom is a laboratory for positive change. Talk 1: Empowering Students and Empowering Teachers Talk 2: Building Tomorro...

Theatre Play | Open House

Nov 16 – Nov 20

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Department of the Arts is proud to present its newest production: a compelling and darkly comedic new play. Directed by our esteemed alumnus, Karim Hamad, this gripping family drama pulls you into a deceptively simple setting: a wedding anniversary celebration. As the family gathers, long-simmering tensions rise to the surface, amplified by the mysterious absence of the family dog. Just ...

Cairo Papers Talk Series | Palestine: Confronting Genocide — Al Bassoul and Al Khazouq: Defying Colonial Violence on the Land

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Online

This intervention, by Yasmeen Qadan of Birzeit University, explores life within the Palestinian village amidst the violence of colonial infrastructure, with a focus on planting practices as a form of dwelling and inhabiting the land. Colonial authorities sought to eradicate these practices by formalizing landownership through registration, transforming lands into mapped plots to govern both the...