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Un Commission Of Inquiry On Syria: Amid The Ruins Of Ar-raqqah And Dayr Al-zawr, Calls For Justice And Accountability By Victims And Families Must Be Urgently Addressed
No full textUn Commission Of Inquiry On Syria: Amid The Ruins Of Ar-raqqah And Dayr Al-zawr, Calls For Justice And Accountability By Victims And Families Must Be Urgently Addresse
Note By The Director-general Progress In The Elimination Of The Syrian Chemical Weapons Programme
No full textNote By The Director-general Progress In The Elimination Of The Syrian Chemical Weapons Programm
Andrew Main Oral History
No full textAndrew Main was a faculty member in Biology at the American University in Cairo from 1994 to 2005. He relates his professional background and how he came to work in Cairo at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit and then at AUC as the head of the Biology Unit of the Science Department. Main gives an account of the emergence and development of the biology program at AUC, including the establishment of a major and Biology as a department in 2000, for which he served as Chair. He recalls the faculty in the unit and then department, and the growth of its personnel. Developments in the biology curriculum and facilities are also covered, and he discusses the Scientific Thinking course that he taught. Main also gives a portrait of students in and graduated from the program, and describes the activities of the Biology Club. He gives his impressions of living in Cairo as well
Chuck Gordon Oral History
No full textChuck Gordon served as Director of Athletics at The American University in Cairo from 2008 to 2011, and again in 2018. He outlines his role during the construction of the Sports Center on the New Cairo Campus, and describes the athletic facilities at AUC (including staffing and challenges of upkeep), as well as the unfinished condition of the campus at the time of the move. Gordon discusses various aspects of AUC’s athletics program, including the sports played and teams fielded, student athletes’ backgrounds, games and tournaments with other universities, international travel, coaching, and coordination with medical services. He also offers a portrait of life as an expatriate American living in Maadi and later New Cairo, including his experiences during the 2011 revolution
Walid Kazziha Oral History
No full textWalid Kazziha was a Political Science faculty member at the American University in Cairo from 1972 through the 2020s. He relates his family’s Syrian origins and his upbringing in Lebanon. He tells of attending the American University of Beirut (AUB) and his activism on behalf of Palestinians and the pan-Arab movement, including his organizing activities among students in Baghdad that resulted in his pursuit by and escape from authorities there. Kazziha’s graduate study with prominent scholars at AUB and then in the United Kingdom for his doctorate are covered as well. He mentions his early career endeavors, and his move to Egypt to take a faculty position at AUC. Kazziha characterizes the intimate nature of the university (contrasting it with the new campus), and discusses its administrative and academic leadership in the 1970s. Divisions between young faculty like Kazziha and older professors are addressed, as well as his own tenure case and accusations of radicalism against him and fellow junior political science faculty. The reaction of AUC administrators, faculty, and students to the 1973 War is handled also, as are relations with the Egyptian government and the role of Sequestrators and Counselors. Attention is given to the role of President Richard Pedersen in AUC’s growth in the 1970s-1980s, and the Sadat open-door policy’s impact on the expansion of business and other professional programs and the changing nature of AUC students. Kazziha describes the Political Science Department over the course of his AUC career, including the evolution of its curriculum and programs, its separation from the Economics and Mass Communication units, and the skills and career prospects imparted to its students. He offers a portrait of leading colleagues in the Political Science department over the years. AUC’s Model United Nations and Model Arab League are also mentioned, as well as centers related to the Political Science Department. He speaks about recent developments such as the relationship between the department and the new School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Provost Lisa Anderson’s installation of department Chairs, and controversial tenure cases and hires. Kazziha also discusses Provosts and Deans and other administrators, and critiques recent trends regarding AUC’s upper administration and its relationship with the faculty
Alexander Pellegrino Oral History
No full textAlexander Pellegrino was a Presidential Intern and then staff member with the American University in Cairo’s Research Institute for Sustainable Environment from 2015 to 2017. He recalls how he came to the internship, his responsibilities on the job (such as a green roofs initiative), and how his work connected to his career aspirations. Pellegrino gives an account of the history of RISE and its predecessor Desert Development Center, describes the administrators and staff of RISE including Director Rick Tutwiler, and discusses developments at the Center (such as funding and restructurings). He offers an overall description of the Presidential Internship program, mentioning the backgrounds and roles of his fellow interns, and describes residing in faculty housing, life in New Cairo elsewhere, and social and recreational life
Josephine Wahba Oral History
No full textJosephine Wahba was a faculty member teaching mathematics and economics in the American University in Cairo’s Science and Economics departments from 1964 to 1985. She recalls her childhood in London and Wales in the United Kingdom, and her study of mathematics at Oxford University, where she met her future husband Magdi Wahba who was pursuing his doctorate. She recounts their move to Cairo after they married in the mid-1950s, life with his family, his career as a Cairo University professor, and the financial challenges faced when family property was sequestered by the Egyptian government in the 1960s. Wahba relates how she came to teach mathematics at AUC in 1964 (mentioning earlier professional positions in the U.K. and Egypt), describing faculty in the sciences. She describes AUC’s Department of Economics and Political Science (and faculty colleagues there), which she joined to teach economics classes, and how the Egyptian government’s recognition of AUC degrees led to the department’s (and university’s) increased popularity and prominence. Wahba tells of her interactions with students, discussing classroom discipline and cases of academic cheating; she acknowledges that she had a reputation as a strict professor and offers the origin of her nickname, and notes prominent graduates. She provides a portrait of AUC students, including the social background of women students who attended in the 1960s, and the decreasing extent of ethnic groups in the student body over time. Her experience during the 1967 war is covered, including a confrontation with student demonstrators who breached the AUC campus buildings, and interactions with internationally-known artists stranded in Cairo at the time. Josephine Wahba also mentions two of her sons who attended AUC, their careers in international diplomacy and finance, and one’s service as an AUC Trustee
Andrew Main Oral History
No full textAndrew Main was a faculty member in Biology at the American University in Cairo from 1994 to 2005. He relates his professional background and how he came to work in Cairo at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit and then at AUC as the head of the Biology Unit of the Science Department. Main gives an account of the emergence and development of the biology program at AUC, including the establishment of a major and Biology as a department in 2000, for which he served as Chair. He recalls the faculty in the unit and then department, and the growth of its personnel. Developments in the biology curriculum and facilities are also covered, and he discusses the Scientific Thinking course that he taught. Main also gives a portrait of students in and graduated from the program, and describes the activities of the Biology Club. He gives his impressions of living in Cairo as well
Security Council, 73rd Year : 8171st Meeting, Tuesday, 30 January 2018, New York
No full textThe situation in the Middle East Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016) and 2393 (2017
Implementation Of Security Council Resolutions
No full textImplementation Of Security Council Resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017) And 2401 (2018) : Report Of The Secretary-genera