HUSS | The American University in Cairo

Sherif Desouky is an Egyptian storyteller, actor, writer, and director, and winner of the Best Actor Award at the 39th Cairo International Film Festival in 2018. He wrote and directed many theatrical productions and worked as an acting coach and a stage and film actor. He excelled in the art of storytelling and improvisation, reaching the level of a storyteller. In his storytelling nights, Sh...

Oct

History Hash Outs: Egyptian Radio: Before State Broadcasting, 1925-1934

Join Ziad Fahmy, Professor of Modern Middle East History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Sep

History Hash Outs: The Italian Renaissance and Its Legacies in a Global Perspective

Fabrizio Conti (Ph.D., Central European University, 2011) is a full-time lecturer in History at John Cabot University and an Arts and Humanities Advisor at the American Academy in Rome. His teaching and research interests span the antique/late antique, medieval, and renaissance periods, with an interdisciplinary approach to cultural and religious developments and special focus on the history of...

Oct

History Hash Outs: Skeletons in the Closet and Other Things in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library

Join the librarians, Eman Morgan Assistant Director for Special Projects, Electronic Media and Professional Development Mark Muehlhaeusler Director of the Center of Excellence for Middle East and Arab Cultures Stephen Urgola Interim Associate Dean, Rare Books & Special Collections Library to enlighten us about rare collections

Oct

History Hash Outs: Disrupting the Flow: Subverting Gender, Class, and Power through Egyptian Hip Hop Culture

Dina El-baradie is a PhD candidate in modern Middle East history, specializing in social and cultural history with a gender focus on masculinity. Her dissertation research is a history and ethnography of the Egyptian rap scene that examines themes of class identity and the construction and performance of masculinities and femininities in youth culture vis-à-vis the dynamics of cultural producti...

Aug

Empty Cages: A Virtual Book Discussion

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join us for an engaging virtual conversation on "Empty Cages" by Fatma Qandil, the 2022 Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. An urgent and raw confessional of memory and family and all that is lost and won in one woman's lifetime. The event will feature award-winning translator Adam Talib, who brought the novel into English with nuance and depth, alongside Karam Youssef, publi...

Jul

Sayyida Zainab: The Tale of a Mosque and Legendary Sites Around it

Jul 14 – Jul 31

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations invites you to an exhibition on the Cairene neighborhood of Sayyida Zainab, held at Future Gallery, AUC Tahrir Campus, 14-31 July, 2025. Unearthing a treasure trove of historic photographs, maps, postcards, newspapers, magazines, etc., this exhibition explores the urban evolution & politics of Sayyida Zainab, fro...

Jul

Museum of the People of Downtown…Narratives and Memories

Jul 18 – Jul 19

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Museum of the People initiative, launched by iCulture Consulting in 2024, seeks to engage communities in the appreciation, documentation, and celebration of Downtown Cairo’s collective memory as part of our intangible cultural heritage. In collaboration with the Tahrir cultural center- American University in Cairo (AUC), this initiative aims to create an interactive platform for knowledge e...

Jun

Island Stories: Hana w Surur in Rawda and Manial

Jun 27 – Jul 5

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm