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الفنان محمد سالم
No full textMohamed Salem (1940-2022) was am Egyptian visual artist, specializing in mural painting, active from the [1964-2022]. In this oral history interview, he discusses his study toward mosaic art at the faculty of fine arts, Alexandria University in the early 1960s, and his interaction there with leading professors Hamid Owais, Mahmoud Musa, Abdullah Gohar, Abdel Hadi El Gazzar, Ahmed Maher Raef and Hamed Nada. Salem notes how these faculty developed the curriculum and teaching at the school and how that contributed to the development of what became known as the Alexandrian Art Movement. The interviewee relates how he devoted his artistic career to mural painting. He tells of his time at the Academy of fine arts in Ravenna, Italy [Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna] in Early 1980s where he received a scholarship to master fresco, mosaic and stained glass techniques, and his return to teach these areas of art at the faculty of fine arts in Alexandria university.The interview was recorded in Al-Amreya district in Alexandria, at the home and studio of the artist.محمد سالم (1940-2022) فنان تشكيلي مصري متخصص في الرسم الجداري ، نشط من 1964-2022. يناقش في مقابلة التاريخ الشفوي دراسته في فن الموزاييك في كلية الفنون الجميلة جامعة الإسكندرية في أوائل الستينيات، وتفاعله هناك مع الأساتذة البارزين حامد عويس ومحمود موسى وعبد الله جوهر وعبد الهادي الجزار وأحمد ماهر رائف وحامد ندا. يلاحظ سالم كيف طورت هذه الكلية مناهج وتدريس الفنون وكيف ساهم ذلك في تطوير ما أصبح يعرف باسم حركة الفن الإسكندري. يروي سالم كيف كرس حياته الفنية حصريا للرسم الجداري. يروي الوقت الذي قضاه في أكاديمية الفنون الجميلة في رافينا بإيطاليا في أوائل الثمانينيات حيث حصل على منحة دراسية لإتقان تقنيات اللوحات الجدارية والفسيفساء والزجاج الملون، وعودته لتدريس هذه المجالات الفنية بكلية الفنون الجميلة بجامعة الإسكندرية. تم تسجيل المقابلة بحي العامرية بالإسكندرية بمنزل واستوديو الفنان
Francis Ricciardone Oral History
No full textFrancis J. Ricciardone was President of the American University in Cairo from 2016 to 2021. He recounts his youth in Massachusetts, and his early interest in languages. He tells about his education, and his and his future-wife’s work in Italy and Iran in the 1970s, and their travel through the Middle East and Europe in that period. Ricciardone outlines his entry to the United States Foreign Service and describes his early diplomatic career, first in Turkey and then his posting to American Embassy in Cairo in the mid-1980s; he offers an account of his experiences in Egypt at that time, such as attending moulid festivals. Later roles (in the Philippines, Iraq, and in State Department management positions) are covered, along with his activities when he returned to Egypt as U.S. Ambassador from 2005 to 2008. His subsequent diplomatic service in Afghanistan, and positions at think tanks, are detailed as well. Ricciardone explains how he came to the presidency of AUC in 2016, and lays out his vison for the university and his early goals as President, such as boosting AUC’s international nature and decreasing bureaucracy. He outlines his restructuring of various administrative areas of the university, and mentions leading personnel in areas like academics, operations, finance, and student affairs during his time at the university, as well as the institution of a General Counsel and selection of the Provost. Ricciardone addresses matters related to the university’s finances, like the devaluation of the Egyptian pound in the month he joined AUC (and the student unrest it occasioned, along with AUC’s response), new taxation obligations to the Egyptian government, and the sustainability of university finances. Relations with the faculty (and the University Senate), including issues related to tenure and a prominent case, currency of salaries for Egyptian professors, the campus visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the status of the Faculty Handbook, and his view of the faculty’s role in university governance are also covered. University facilities, including disposition of real estate, the transformation of the Tahrir Square campus, expansion of the New Cairo campus, and the move of the New York Office, are mentioned as well. He also speaks about the 2019-2020 celebration of AUC’s Centennial, and the university’s response to the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic