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Magda Hayek Oral History
No full textMagda Hayek was a faculty member from the mid 1970s to the 2010s, teaching physics laboratory and later English language at the American University in Cairo, having been an undergraduate and graduate student in science and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at AUC. Of Lebanese and Greek Orthodox background, she speaks about family members’ Egyptian citizenship status and ties with relatives in Lebanon, with whom visits were exchanged over the years. Hayek tells about her family’s automotive and electrical appliance business and aspects of their life in a downtown Cairo apartment building, and recalls the cinemas and grand department stores of downtown in the 1950s and 1960s. Her primary and high school education at Catholic schools are described, with discussion of matters ranging from religious education to dress, discipline, and opportunities for female students. Hayek relates how she came to AUC and her studies as a Chemistry-Physics major and later a Solid State Science Master’s degree student in the late 1960s and early 1970s, describing science faculty, facilities (the new Science Building, safety, etc.) and the social life of the Science Department and its students. A detailed portrait of student life is provided, from social life and male-female relationships to athletics and volunteering, and major student events like the Talent Show and Miss AUC contest. Hayek recounts her experiences as a part-time physics laboratory instructor at AUC from the mid-1970s to early 1990s, describing changes in the nature of the AUC student body over the years. She tells about pursuing a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the 1990s and shifting to teaching English and later serving as an administrator with AUC’s Division of Public Service and Center for Adult and Continuing Education and School of Continuing Education, and discusses personnel and other aspects of that unit
Draft Resolution [on Renewal Of The Mandate Of The Opcw-un Joint Investigative Mechanism To Identify The Use Of Chemical Weapons In The Syrian Arab Republic For One Additional Year]
No full textDraft Resolution [on Renewal Of The Mandate Of The Opcw-un Joint Investigative Mechanism To Identify The Use Of Chemical Weapons In The Syrian Arab Republic For One Additional Year
Memorandum On The Creation Of De-escalation Areas In The Syrian Arab Republic
No full textMemorandum On The Creation Of De-escalation Areas In The Syrian Arab Republi
Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syria
No full textUnder-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syri
Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syria
No full textUnder-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syri
Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syria
No full textUnder-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syri
Letter from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council
No full textSecurity Council Repor
Security Council, 72nd Year : 8145th Meeting, Thursday, 21 December 2017, New York
No full textSecurity Council Resolution 2394 (2017) [on Extension Of The Mandate Of The Un Disengagement Observer Force (Undof) Until 30 June 2018