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Fadwa El Guindi Oral History
No full textFadwa El Guindi attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate student from 1958 to 1960, and worked for the Social Research Center for several years after 1962 on its Nubia Ethnographic Survey, before later going on to become a well-known anthropologist. She recalls her early education including study at the American College for Girls where she was the first student in a joint program between that school and AUC. She describes AUC's student body, and campus social life and activities like parties and dances. Her academic program and professors are discussed as well. El Guindi tells about her role as editor of The Caravan student newspaper, including challenging administrators' restrictions on stories, and her efforts to organize students on efforts like moving the contents of the library to a new space. She recounts working for the Social Research Center's (SRC) Nubia Ethnographic Survey in the 1960s, her colleagues and supervisor Charles Callender, research methods and approach, living conditions, and interactions with Nubians. Also mentioned are her efforts years later to preserve and make accessible Callender's archives. She speaks of her relationship with SRC Director Laila El Hamamsy, and Hamamsy's efforts to develop the staff by sending them abroad for study (as she did for El Guindi). Her pursuit of doctoral study in anthropology, field research in Mexico, and career as a professor at leading universities in the U.S. and beyond are also covered. So too is her experience making anthropological films in Egypt in the 1980s, in connection with the El Nil Research operation she founded
Humphrey Davies Oral History
No full textHumphrey Davies was a translator of Arabic literature into English, much of his work published by the AUC Press from the 2000s to 2020s, and in the late 1960s had been a student with the American University in Cairo's CASA program, and a staff member at AUC in the early 1970s. He recalls his childhood and education in post-war London, and details his education at Cambridge University in the 1960s, including his study of Arabic and his professors and classmates there. Davies explains how he came to work in the Middle East, as a student at AUC's Center for Arabic Study Abroad in 1968-69, traveling the region as a representative of Oxford University Press, then joining the Martin Hinds-EsSaid Badawi Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic project (whose methodology he details) at AUC for three years in the early 1970s. His doctoral study at the University of California Berkeley in the mid- 1970s is mentioned, along with his later work for international organizations operating in the Middle East like Save the Children and the Ford Foundation. Humphrey Davies outlines what influenced him to go into translation work and his start in the field, including contact with Arabic literary translator Denys Davies-Johnson and work coming available at AUC's Division of Public Service in the 1970s. He covers his early translations of Arabic literature into English, and highlights of his career such as Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building; his long relationship with the AUC Press receives attention. Davies also recounts his interactions and ways of collaborating with authors and translators in Egypt. He offers observations on the diversity of writers he has translated (across various nationalities and historical periods), as well as on various aspects of the translator's craft and modern Arabic literature. Davies also relates his experience of events of Egypt's 2011 revolution that took place near his home near Tahrir Square, and provides a portrait of life in Egypt as a foreign resident and how that changed over the span of five decades
Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock Briefing To The Security Council On The Humanitarian Situation In Raqqa And Rukban
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Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien
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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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Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’brien Statement To The Security Council On Syria
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