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Pathways of Hierarchy-Making: Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the New International Division of Labour

In this talk, Professor Roberto Roccu explores the variegated ways neoliberalism got to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), following the 1973 oil 'crisis', creating many of the preconditions for the increasingly hierarchical regional order we see today. Drawing on Ambalavaner Sivananda's work on ‘the new circuits of imperialism’, this talk will focus primarily on how hydrocarbon proceeds ...

Nov

A Panel Discussion Celebrating the Opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum: Reflections from AUC Press Authors

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Online

Join us for a very special virtual event celebrating the long-awaited official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), featuring world-renowned Egyptologists and AUC Press authors. Hosted by AUC Press, the panel discussion will explore the museum’s groundbreaking role in reshaping Egyptology and museology; the new insights its innovative displays provide into ancient Egyptian kingship, a...

Nov

Artist Talk: Yasmine El Meleegy

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Yasmine El Meleegy is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and site-specific interventions. (b. 1991, Egypt) She lives and works in Cairo. El Meleegy received her BFA in Painting from Helwan University (2013), a Diploma in Multimedia from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes (2014), and was part of the MASS Alexandria Independent Art Program (2016). H...

Nov

ندوة: النظام التجاري الدولي في زمن مضطرب: دلالاته على مصر والبلدان النامية

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Learn about the challenges facing the global trading system and their impact on Egypt and developing countries. *The talk will be held in Arabic.

Nov

NVIVO Beginners Workshop

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Whether you’re a student, faculty member or freelancer, NVivo helps you organize and analyze all your research data—audio, transcripts, images and videos—in one place.

Nov

Cairo Papers Talk Series | Palestine: Confronting Genocide — Fragmented Wholeness: Ashlaa’ and the Theorization of Palestinian Overkill

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Online

In the face of the ongoing genocidal onslaught against Palestinians, Nadera Shalhoub of Prinston University centers ashlaa’—the dismembered body—as an analytic for theorizing Palestinian life, death, and resistance amidst genocide. Reading the settler-colonial project through the corpo-economy of the perpetually uncounted body—flesh smashed and scattered, sealed in plastic, decaying in shipping...

Oct

Music in a Visual Dialogue Exhibition - Curated by Mahmoud Hamdi

Oct 30 – Nov 14

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Come witness the work of seven artists intertwining sound and image, celebrating Egypt’s timeless harmony and honoring music legend Ziad Rahbani.

Oct

Cairo Jazz Festival 2025

Oct 30 – Nov 7

5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Don’t miss this celebration of sound and culture, uniting artists from 14 countries. With performances from Wust El Balad to a Ziad Rahbani homage, expect to be moved as well as entertained.

Oct

Theatre Play: Bein El Maya Wel Hawa | بين المية والهوا

Oct 21 – Nov 4

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Come experience this powerful local adaptation of Chekhov's timeless classic, The Seagull, bringing to life the struggles of love, art and ambition with a local twist.

Oct

Cairo Papers Talk Series | Palestine: Confronting Genocide — Faster Than Mourning: AI Killing, Existence and the Struggle Over Time

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Online

Palestine: Confronting Genocide Cairo Papers in Social Science, The American University in Cairo More than two years since the onset of the most recent genocide in Palestine, suffering, destruction, starvation, and massive displacement have remained an everyday reality in Palestine. The vast numbers of the dead, the wounded, and the missing continue to rise, along with the ruination of all ...