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The American University in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories


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In 2019, the American University in Cairo (AUC) celebrates its centenary. Founded on Tahrir Square, the university has been at the center of the intellectual, social, and cultural life of Cairo and Egypt for the last one hundred years, and is hailed as one of the leading academic institutions in the Middle East. AUC’s alumni have included diplomats, business leaders, statesmen and stateswomen, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists, media personalities, filmmakers, revolutionaries, and even a queen. In that time, the university has experienced wars, revolutions, attempted nationalization, bombings, and, in recent times, a wholesale move to a new purpose-built campus in the desert. Utilizing a rich array of photographs, documents, and objects, this book presents one hundred short stories about the life and legacy of this unique and remarkable institution.

Table of Contents:
1. A Brief Overview of the History of AUC 2. Students and Alumni 3. Faculty 4. Staff 5. Visitors 6. The Social Scene 7. AUC through Wars and Revolutions 8. Contributions to Egyptian Society 9. International Contribution of AUC 10. Outreach 11. AUC Press 12. Building and Campuses 13. Looking to the Future

About the Author :
Andrew Humphreys's relationship with AUC stretches back to the late 1980s when he was often to be found behind a newspaper around the Fountain Court on the Tahrir Campus. He collaborated with AUC professor John Rodenbeck on the series of SPARE maps of Islamic Cairo. In 1996, he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Cairo Times. He is the author of National Geographic Traveler Egypt (AUC Press, 2009), Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2012), and On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2015). Gadi Farfour was born and raised in Alexandria. She studied print design at the London College of Printing, and has subsequently worked as a magazine and book designer for Lonely Planet, Virgin Books, the Time Out Group, and Dorling Kindersley. For AUC Press she has designed Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (2012), On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (2015), and Classic Egyptian Movies (2018).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789774168888
  • Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: 100 Years, 100 Stories
  • ISBN-10: 9774168887
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 190 mm


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