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CLT Symposium Keynote: Embodied Compassionate Leadership to Promote Collective Wellbeing in our Institutions

Discover how compassionate leadership can transform institutional wellbeing in this keynote with Laura Burgis and Victor Manolo at the CLT Symposium.

Oct

Mental Health Week 2026: Scroll Less, Live More

Oct 4 – Oct 7

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Wear green for Mental Health Week! Visit our booth during assembly for fun activities, giveaways and awareness events all week.

Sep

CLT Symposium Keynote II: Connection, Curiosity, and Care: Practical Strategies of Teaching Today

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Online

Join Professor Peter Felten, to explore practical, research-informed strategies for teaching in ways that cultivate connection, curiosity and care.

Sep

CLT Symposium Keynote: Curiosity Is the Skill the Machine Cannot Fake: Building Resilient, Questioning Learners in the Age of AI

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Online

When AI can answer anything, what happens to the art of questioning? Join Professor Sam Illingworth to explore how to put curiosity back at the center of learning.

Sep

The Age of Independence and Settler-Colonialism

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Notions of independence, self-determination, and national liberation have always been presented as anti-colonial progressive notions, when in fact they were invented by European colonial settlers. The lecture will examine the genealogy of these notions, the centrality of settler-colonialism to their emergence, and how they also came to be adopted by indigenous struggles against colonialism and ...

Oct

She Arts Festival 2026: Voices of Peace – A Global Symphony

Oct 1 – Oct 4

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

She Arts Festival returns for its 6th edition from October 1–4, 2026, bringing together women artists, musicians, performers, and creatives from Egypt and around the world under the theme “Voices of Peace – A Global Symphony.” Taking place at the American University in Cairo, Tahrir Square, the festival presents four days of concerts, performances, workshops, masterclasses, visual arts, and cu...

Sep

Egypt Press Photo Exhibition

Sep 17 – Oct 22

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover the stories that defined 2025 through the work of Egypt's leading photojournalists in this annual contemporary photojournalism exhibition, now in its 20th edition.

Sep

Virtual Book Discussion: A Daring Enterprise

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join AUC Press and the AUC Onsi Sawiris School of Business for a virtual conversation on "A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power." The conversation features co-authors James A. Harmon and Cornelius Queen, and will be moderated by Sherif Kamel, dean of the business school. The book offers an inside story of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund and its efforts...

Sep

CMRS Seminar: Refugees Return From Egypt — Legal Frameworks, Historical Contexts and Contemporary Practices

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites you to an engaging lecture on: Refugees Return From Egypt: Legal Frameworks, Historical Contexts, and Contemporary Practices This presentation analyzes the return process and its historical context in Egypt, as well as the legal framework governing repatriation under both the 1951 Convention a...

Sep

Theatre Performance - A Number

Sep 17 – Sep 20

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

What makes us who we are? Our upbringing, our memories, our biology, or the choices we make? A Number, by acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill, is an intense psychological encounter exploring identity, family, and responsibility through the relationship between a father and his son.