HUSS | The American University in Cairo

URL

https://huss.aucegypt.edu

Daydreaming

Experience this theatrical performance, exploring one man's retreat into fantasy as reality and illusion blur across his most significant relationships.

Sep

CuttingEEG Cairo Garden 2026

Sep 21 – Sep 25

10:00 am

AUC New Cairo

Join researchers, clinicians and engineers for five days of hands-on electroencephalography workshops, expert lectures and global plenary talks at CuttingEEG Cairo Garden 2026.

Sep

History Hash Outs | Cairo and the African Revolution: The Making of an Anti-Colonial Hub

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Sara Hussein of the University of California as she examines mid-twentieth-century Cairo as a global hub for Afro-Arab liberation networks.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Governing Muslims: Law and the Making of Russian Imperial Rule in Crimea, 1783–1850

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover how Russian imperial rule reshaped Muslim Crimea from 1783 to 1850, with Dilyara Agisheva of AUC.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Building the Future: Cold War Development in Egypt and the Gulf

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Learn how Egyptians imagined future development between decolonization and neoliberal globalization with Masha Kirasirova of New York University Abu Dhabi.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Out of the Phoenix’s Ashes: Valentine de Saint-Point and the Eastern

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Trace the incredible post-World War I journey of French writer Valentine de Saint-Point to Cairo with historian Mariam Elashmawy.

Nov

History Hash Outs | Alexandria Again: Islamic Philosophy and Decolonisation in Mid-20th Century Egypt

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover how modern Egyptian philosophers reclaimed Alexandrian cosmopolitanism for an independent Egypt, with Simon Conrad of the Orient-Institute Beirut.

Sep

History Hash Outs | History as a Creative Practice: Making the Past Public

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Explore history as a creative practice beyond academia with Yasmine El Dorghamy, founder of Rawi Publishing

Jul

Sharea El Sheikh Ayesh – شارع الشيخ عايش

Jul 22 – Jul 25

8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Sharea El Sheikh Ayesh is a captivating theatrical play that takes audiences on a journey through more than a century of Egyptian history, beginning in 1919 in one of Cairo's vibrant working-class neighborhoods. Blending humor, drama, and nostalgia, it follows generations of families whose stories of love, resilience, and hope reflect the enduring spirit of Egypt and its people.

Apr

AUC Tahrir CultureFest 2027

Apr 15 – Apr 17

1:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Details coming soon