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Letter from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council
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Sohair Mehanna Oral History
No full textSohair Mehanna was a member of The American University in Cairo’s Social Research Center from the 1960s to 2010s, and had received her undergraduate degree from AUC in 1960. She recalls her education at the American College for Girls, including her participation in its freshman-sophomore year joint program with AUC preceding her completion of two year’s Bachelor degree studies at the university in 1960. She recollects AUC during her student days, speaking about student life and the faculty (including some of whom she worked with as a junior research at the Social Research Center and those who encouraged her to pursue graduate studies in the United States). Her rejoining the Center in the 1960s as a research professor is covered as well. Mehanna describes Social Research Center throughout her long association with it, including the styles and contributions of its directors and the roles played by colleagues. She traces the evolution of the SRC’s research program (including the Nubian Ethnographic Survey and projects on resettlement, population and family planning, and environmental studies) and training initiatives, discussing methodologies used, challenges, and its funding sources over the years
Hussein El-Sharkawy Oral History
No full textHussein El-Sharkawy was the American University in Cairo’s Vice President for New Campus Development from 1999 to 2008, during the design and construction of AUC’s New Cairo campus. He provides background about his father’s architectural career with the Egyptian royal court and then for the post-revolutionary government. His own schooling and study of architecture at Cairo University (including contact with leading professors and colleagues), and early career working for Egyptian government institutions are recalled. He recounts his graduate studies in the United States and work there, prior to almost two decades as a faculty member and designing university campuses in Saudi Arabia. El Sharkawy outlines planning for AUC’s new campus in New Cairo (such as site selection) by administrators like Vice President Kenneth Toepfer and Architect Ashraf Salloum, before his hiring by President John Gerhart in 1999. Land acquisition, including interaction with government entities and the role of trustees, and site preparation are covered (with anecdotes about clearing military test-site artillery shells and dealing with local “mafias” controlling the land). He describes the process of soliciting AUC community members’ input, and the juried architectural competitions (master plan and various buildings), discussing the principles guiding the campus design and the architects chosen. El-Sharkawy discusses fundraising for the new campus, the selection of the firm Fluor Daniel as project managers and Samcrete and Samsung as contractors, and the scale and logistics of the work site. Aspects of building the campus that he addresses are power and water utilities and environmental sustainability concerns, landscaping, information technology infrastructure, and the context of the New Cairo district and transportation issues. He addresses various campus buildings and their design and function, along with matters such as furnishings, classroom design, specialized facilities like theaters, and prayer spaces. El-Sharkawy explains the project’s delays and cost overruns, and how his preference for delaying the move to the new campus until completion of construction activity, and differing approach vis a vis President David Arnold and others to dealing with disputes with contractors, resulted in his departure from AUC. He goes on to speak about his professional work in Egypt and elsewhere in following years. He also comments on future opportunities for utilizing the campus, such as display of artworks and expansion of built areas, and connecting its design to AUC’s liberal arts mission
Remarks At Opening Session Of Riyadh 2 Meeting By Mr. Staffan De Mistura, Un Special Envoy For Syria
No full textRemarks At Opening Session Of Riyadh 2 Meeting By Mr. Staffan De Mistura, Un Special Envoy For Syri
Joint Statement By Presidents Of Iran, Russia And Turkey
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Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syria
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Letter from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council
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Letter from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council
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Carol Clark Oral History
No full textCarol Clark was a faculty member who taught English language and writing at The American University in Cairo from the 1970s through 2017, having received an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at AUC. Clark recalls her first contact with Egypt, a visit in 1973 when she met an Egyptian man whom she later married; upon relocating to Cairo she studied in the AUC English Language Institute TEFL program as an MA Fellow; she gives a description of the ELI and TEFL program in that period. Her first teaching at AUC was with adult education students in its Division of Public Service (DPS). She recounts her departure from AUC by the 1990s, living in Kuwait and then teaching elsewhere in Egypt, and raises the issue of AUC local-hire and foreign-hire faculty status that affected her (she discusses faculty issues and relations with the administration in later periods as well). Clark rejoined AUC in 1997 in the Center for Adult and Continuing Education in its USAID-contracted English Language Testing and Training program, and reports advances made in the 1990s especially in the adoption of teaching and learning objectives and evaluation standards and the application of computer technology. Clark gives a portrait of the English Language Institute where she returned to teach in the 2000s, discussing its structure and leadership at the Director and Coordinator level. AUC’s Freshman Writing Program is described, on the basis of Clark’s periodic teaching there and its links with the ELI, whose own writing and graduate curriculum she discusses. Clark recounts her involvement in the revamping of AUC’s Core Curriculum and Freshman Year Program in the 2000s, including in the design and teaching of new courses. Facilities at the old downtown campus are compared with those at the New Cairo campus as Clark evaluates the impact of the 2008 move (and commuting) on teaching and campus community. Clark outlines the English Language Institute’s restructuring (as part of the creation of the Academy of Liberal Arts in 2013) that separated the TEFL MA program from the new Department of English Language Instruction, for which she was the first chair. She comments extensively on students over the years, touching on their abilities and learning style, foreign students, the 2012 student strike, and on her children’s experience from her vantage point as an AUC parent. Clark tells about the establishment of AUC’s day care center in the 1980s as well as her long involvement with AUC’s Faculty Services Committee, and offers her observations on how life in Cairo changed in her decades as a resident