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Sep

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

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AUC New Cairo

Sara Hussein is History PhD candidate at UCLA studying intellectual and diplomatic Abstract: This talk is adapted from my dissertation, which recovers Afro-Arab histories of political, cultural, and intellectual exchange that thrived in mid-twentieth-century Cairo, when the city emerged as a global center fostering transnational cooperation across the formerly and still-colonized world. Betwee...

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07
Oct

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

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AUC New Cairo

Dilyara Agisheva, Adjunct, History Department, AUC & Research Fellow at Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt Abstract: Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 1783 brought a predominantly Muslim territory, formerly connected to the Ottoman Empire, under the authority of an expanding empire. Although Catherine II promised to protect the religion, property, and institutions of her new subjects, ann...

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14
Oct

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

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AUC New Cairo

Masha Kirasirova is an Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi How did Egyptians imagine the future during the decades between decolonization and neoliberal globalization? This talk explores competing visions of development in Egypt from the 1940s through the 1970s, situating them within Cold War rivalries and transregional exchanges. Beginning with the Aswan High Dam ...

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21
Oct

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

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AUC New Cairo

Mariam Elashmawy is a historian of esotericism and print culture in the modern Middle East. She is a PhD fellow at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. In the aftermath of World War I, a profound crisis of meaning gripped Europe, driving many of its thinkers, artists, and spiritualists to seek philosophical refuge in non-Western traditions. This talk examines the figure of Valentine de Saint-...

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16
Sep

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

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AUC New Cairo

Yasmine El Dorghamy, Founder & Editorial Director, Rawi Publishing This talk explores history as a creative and public-facing practice. Drawing on the work of Rawi Publishing, Yasmine El Dorghamy will discuss how historical research can be transformed into books, exhibitions, visual narratives, social media content, and cultural projects for a broad audience. Using Rawi’s latest publication ...

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22
Jul

Sharea El Sheikh Ayesh – شارع الشيخ عايش

Jul 22 – Jul 25
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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.