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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
Statement By Un Special Envoy Of The Secretary-general For Syria, Mr. Staffan De Mistura, In Sochi, Russian Federation
No full textStatement By Un Special Envoy Of The Secretary-general For Syria, Mr. Staffan De Mistura, In Sochi, Russian Federatio
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Statement And Answers To Media Questions At A Joint News Conference Following Talks With Un Secretary-General's Special Envoy For Syria Staffan De Mistura, Moscow
No full textForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Statement And Answers To Media Questions At A Joint News Conference Following Talks With Un Secretary-General's Special Envoy For Syria Staffan De Mistura, Mosco
Syria / Chemical Attacks In Douma (7 April) : Joint Statement By France And 16 Other Member Countries Of Opcw
No full textSyria / Chemical Attacks In Douma (7 April) : Joint Statement By France And 16 Other Member Countries Of Opc
Statement By The United States To The Opcw 58th Meeting Of The Executive Council
No full textStatement By The United States To The Opcw 58th Meeting Of The Executive Counci
Note By The Technical Secretariat Report Of The Opcw Fact-finding Mission In Syria Regarding An Alleged Incident In Saraqib, Syrian Arab Republic On 4 February 2018
No full textNote By The Technical Secretariat Report Of The Opcw Fact-finding Mission In Syria Regarding An Alleged Incident In Saraqib, Syrian Arab Republic On 4 February 201
Brian MacDougall Oral History
No full textBrian MacDougall served as the American University in Cairo’s Vice President for Planning and Administration and then Executive Vice President between 2008 and 2018. He describes the state of the still under-construction new campus as it opened in 2008 (when he was serving as an Associate Vice President for several months before becoming VP for Planning and Administration). He addresses matters related to the new campus such as design issues, construction challenges and delays and contractor performance, the move process, the new campus’ unanticipated operating costs and personnel level required, and problematic local infrastructure; he also outlines efforts to make the new campus more sustainable. The downtown Tahrir Square campus is covered, in particular efforts for the divestment of property downtown and elsewhere. Faculty housing, New Cairo campus bus transportation, and changes to campus facilities are also covered, as is the 2009 quarantine of the Zamalek hostel due to an H1N1 Bird Flu outbreak. MacDougall describes his role and that of other AUC administrators and staff in responding to the 2011 protests at Tahrir Square. He traces the influence of the January 25, 2011 revolution on the labor activism on the AUC campus in this period, and on the 2012 student strike and gate closure, discussing major figures, the administration’s response, and consequences of that event, and mentioning student demonstrations in later years. MacDougall assumed responsibility for AUC finances as part of his portfolio in 2013 when he became Executive Vice President, and he explains how developments like challenges for Egypt’s economy and the Egyptian pound’s devaluation, currency exchange difficulties, loss of foreign student enrollment and tuition, and competition from other universities affected AUC’s financial condition, laying out responses like staff cuts and other changes in AUC human resources policies. The relationship between AUC’s administration (and Board of Trustees) and the faculty is covered, including matters like the status Faculty Handbook, faculty benefits, and his view of the respective roles in university governance of each group. MacDougall also offers a sketch of the role, structural evolution, and key personnel of the various offices that reported to him
Saad Eddin Ibrahim Oral History
No full textSaad Eddin Ibrahim was a sociologist and faculty member at the American University in Cairo from the 1970s to 2010s, and founded and led various civil society initiatives in Egypt and the region, like the Ibn Khaldun Center. He describes his family background and early childhood in a village in Egypt’s Delta region, and his education in the city of Mansoura. Ibrahim tells of his study of sociology at Cairo University and graduate study in the 1960s at the University of California, Los Angeles and later the University of Washington, and his efforts as a student activist for Arab causes. He recalls taking his first teaching job at DePauw University in Indiana, and the story of his meeting his future wife there and their marrying after she stayed with his family in his home village in Egypt. Positions in university teaching in Lebanon and advising the government of Iraq in the 1970s are covered, as is his coming to work at AUC in 1975. Ibrahim describes being based in AUC’s Department of Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, and Egyptology, and his fellow faculty members and interactions among them. Ibrahim’s teaching and mentoring at AUC of future Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak (and later her sons) is addressed, as well as his role as an occasional advisor to President Hosni Mubarak in the 1980s and 1990s. Leading student groups to visit Palestine and Lebanon in the early 2000s is another initiative he recalls. Ibrahim recounts his role in founding and leading civil society organizations like the Arab Organization for Human Rights (and its Egypt offices) and the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, and covers their activities such as reporting violations to the press, monitoring elections, and producing studies and holding conferences on the rights of women and minorities, as well as their means of financial support. Substantial attention is given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s arrest, detention, interrogations, and court trials (and that of colleagues) arising from alleged finance and national security violations at the Ibn Khaldun Center (and, he states, based on his critique of Egypt’s President Mubarak). Ibrahim details his prison experience and interactions with other prisoners, including efforts he made to improve their capabilities and conditions there. The support he received, while imprisoned, from AUC and from foreign governments and organizations is mentioned, as is his ultimate acquittal. An account is provided of a later meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush in 2006 that led him to remain away from Egypt for several years, during which time he served as a visiting lecturer at universities in the United States, and his eventual return to Egypt during the 2011 Tahrir Square protests