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Awful Anthropology: On the Pains of Doing Anthropology that Breaks your Heart

Hear Professor Maryam Fouad on the affective and ethical burdens of fieldwork, exploring how anthropology's power lies in bearing witness.

Oct

Campus Book Fair

Oct 26 – Oct 30

9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Come explore AUC’s graduate programs, meet with admission representatives, attend program-specific sessions and chat with faculty members from various disciplines.

Oct

The Manual | الكتالوج

8:00 pm – 9:15 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Manual is conceived as a haunting dreamscape unfolding in three acts—Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno—through an accessible yet provocative metaphor, the performance critically examines our fragile human condition in an era marked by polarization and escalating conflicts, exposing how human beings destroy one another due to imaginary stories that reside in our minds. كحلم يتحول لكابوس تتك...

Oct

D-CAF: The Body Symphonic | الجسد السيمفوني

Oct 25 – Oct 26

8:00 pm – 8:50 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

“The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly.” – Etel Adnan The body symphonic is a performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance. The work engages with the body as it journeys through rituals of excavation–revealing new and unbound mythologies that allow for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to...

Nov

IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM) 2025

Nov 4 – Nov 6

9:00 am

AUC Tahrir Square

Join this gathering of global researchers to share knowledge on the latest communications and networking topics.

Oct

The Light Within | نور

8:00 pm – 8:40 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Light Within explores the notion of inner light. How do we continue to shine in dark times? How can we stand in solidary, in unity, in community? On stage, a dance trio plays with the edges of light and dark. يستكشف عرض "نور" فكرة النور الداخلي. كيف نستمر في الإشعاع في الأوقات الحالكة؟ كيف نقف في تضامن ووحدة وجماعة؟ على خشبة المسرح، يلعب ثلاثي من الراقصين على حافتي النور والظلام.

Oct

Cartoons as Political Critique in Ghana – a Close Look at the Work of Bright Ackwerh

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

The lecture focuses on the activist work of Ghanaian political cartoonist Bright Ackwerh. Bright is an artist who describes himself as a “pseudo-historian,” someone who responds to the gatekeeping practices of elite-owned and state-influenced media, by telling stories that media agencies are too afraid to tell. Bright’s political cartoons bring to the surface the unspoken and unseen worlds of e...

Oct

DRONE: Testimonies and Music | درون: شهادات وموسيقى

Oct 22 – Oct 23

10:00 pm – 10:45 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Experience DRONE, a multimedia theatre piece blending testimony, poetry, and sound to confront desensitization, moral injury, and the human cost of warfare.

Oct

L’Echo | الصدى

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

In this powerful duet, choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza, alongside actress Valérie Dréville, explore the body as a vessel for the imagination. L’echo delves into the potential and expressive nature of dance, which they find to be a spoken word within the body. The two artists met through the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny (MC93), in an encounter striving to break down...

Oct

D-CAF: Gaza O My Joy | غزة أيها الفرح

8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet in War Time? is a poem by Hend Jouda, published on her Facebook in October 2023, at the height of the massacres in Gaza. Iconic and immediately viral, it was translated into multiple languages. This fundamental question forms the backbone of the show, which gathers other poems that bear witness to the tragedy, terror and desolation. It also explores the poets’ and...