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10 unusual facts about American University in Cairo


Ahmed Hamada

During the 2003 EgyKart Championship he managed to reach 4th position on the high but due to many absences in the championship due to his Mechanical Engineering Studies at the American University in Cairo, he finished off 8th in the Championship.

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide

2004; she received a Ph. D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, has worked with Zahi Hawass, and has taught at the American University in Cairo.

Barbara Romaine

Fascinated by the Arabic language, over the next six years she attended university extension classes, two intensive (full-immersion), summers at Middlebury College, and a year on fellowship at the American University in Cairo (1992-1993).

Global Entrepreneurship Program

In addition, GEP’s eight local Egyptian partners include the Egyptian Junior Business Association, Nile University, the American University in Cairo, Delta Financial, and the Egyptian Business Leaders Forum and others.

Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti

Areas bearing the graffiti included the walls of The American University in Cairo and some buildings and schools surrounding it, and the concrete wall that was installed later in Mohamed Mahmoud street to stop protesters from advancing to the Ministry of Interior building.

Nesma Mahgoub

Before participating in Star Academy Nesma was studying Journalism, Mass Communication, Theater, and Music at the American University in Cairo.

P. J. Vatikiotis

He was educated at Greek and English private schools in Palestine, before studying at the American University in Cairo and Johns Hopkins University.

Qu'aiti

;HH Princess Muzna bint Ghalib Al Qu'aiti: born 28 December 1980 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, holds a MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS and BA from the American University in Cairo; married Hisham Hafez of Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Stephen Polk

While studying theater, literature and film at Kenyon College (where he received a Bachelor of Arts), he attended the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Sylvia Shaw Judson

She authored The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures and For Gardens and Other Places, The Sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson and taught sculpture at the American University in Cairo in 1963.


Centre for Human Rights

The programme is a joint project of the Centre with Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Ghana, the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon), the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, American University in Cairo

The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC), at the American University in Cairo (AUC) located in Cairo, Egypt, specializes in the study of the rich tradition of Arabo-Islamic culture, thought, language, and history.

Getatchew Haile

He graduated from the Coptic Theological College, Cairo, Egypt with a B.D. in 1957, from the American University in Cairo, with a B.A. in 1957, and from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, with a Ph.D. in Semitic Philology, in 1962.

Khairy Pasha palace

The Khairy building was acquired by the American Mission in Egypt in 1919, and opened as the original 1920 American University at Cairo campus structure in downtown Cairo.

Rupert Emerson

He was a lecturer at Yale University, 1937–38; a visiting professor of political science at University of California, Berkeley, 1953–54, and 1973, at University of California, Los Angeles, 1965–71, and at the American University in Cairo, 1972.

Sameh El-Saharty

He graduated from Cairo University School of Medicine in 1982 and received a Master of Sciences in Public Health from the Military Medical Academy in Egypt in 1988, a Certificate in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo in 1988, and Master of Public Health in International Health Policy and Management from Harvard University in 1991.

Prior to joining the World Bank, he has worked for several organizations including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Pathfinder International, Clark Atlanta University, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Vinci (construction) (formerly Société Générale d’Entreprises), Ministry of Health and Population (Egypt), and Cairo University School of Medicine.