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Amr Rezk Oral History
No full textAmr Rezk was an undergraduate student at the American University in Cairo, graduating in 2000. He speaks about his grandfather Mohamed Tewfik Younes, who was a member of AUC’s first class in 1920 and graduated in 1923, speaking about the reasons he attended AUC and interactions with American administrators, as revealed by his grandfather’s documents and family lore. Rezk speaks about attending AUC as an undergraduate student himself in the late 1990s, describing the campus and students, including distinctive groups that socialized together, like heavy metal music fans or those frequenting the Greek Campus’ so-called “Gucci Corner;” perceptions of AUC students in Egyptian society are mentioned as well. He tells about student activities and organizations, like the Model United Nations in which her participated. Rezk offers a portrait of social life for AUC students in the late 1990s, from the bars, clubs, and other off-campus entertainment venues, to friend groups and relationships between male and female students. Manifestations of religion and politics on campus are also discussed. The development of computing, internet, and mobile telephone technology during his time at AUC are covered, with an assessment of the impact on academic and social life for students like him. Rezk discusses the kinds of careers his classmates pursued, and what he gained from AUC academically, professionally, and personally
Mahmoud El-Lozy Oral History
No full textMahmoud El-Lozy was a faculty member teaching theater at the American University in Cairo from the 1980s to 2020, and had been an undergraduate and graduate student at AUC in the 1970s. The son of parents whose family business was nationalized and who came to work at AUC in the 1960s (in financial administration and teaching English), El-Lozy provides a detailed portrait of his upbringing, from school to recreation to their household and Zamalek neighborhood. Mahmoud covers his years as an undergraduate student at AUC in the early 1970s, describing social life and recreation, his academic pursuits, and students’ backgrounds, political activism, and activities related to the 1973 War. He addresses how he got into dramatics, as well as AUC’s theater facilities, productions (telling numerous anecdotes), and students and faculty (like Theater Director Professor David Woodman) during his undergraduate and Master’s graduate study years. Doctoral study in the United States and his rejoining AUC as a faculty member in the English and Comparative Literature Department are covered, along with his role in the Theater Program (such as introducing Arabic language productions) in the 1980s and 1990s. El-Lozy traces the emergence and evolution of the Theater, Music, Art, and Film (later Performing and Visual Arts) Department in those years, outlining the impact of Chair and Theater Director Walter Eysselinck, and he discusses the development of the Theater Program in the decades after 2000 and the contributions of its leading faculty members. He describes the place of AUC theater in Egypt’s cultural scene, plays he directed (indicating challenges like censorship), the building of theaters in the downtown Falaki Building and on the New Cairo Campus, and the students with whom he worked and their career paths. Throughout El-Lozy expresses his views and criticisms of changes in AUC’s mission, academic programs, administration, and student behavior over the years, as well as his vision of how theater enriches students’ education and the life of the university
Mervat Shenouda Oral History
No full textMervat Shenouda was an undergraduate and graduate engineering student at the American University in Cairo in the1970s and went on teach science and engineering as an adjunct faculty member through the 2020s. Shenouda speaks of being the first woman student in engineering at AUC, in its materials engineering program, receiving her Bachelor’s degree in 1975 and Master’s in 1980. Shenouda describes science facilities at the downtown campus including the Science Building, laboratories, and Computer Center, and mentions the faculty with whom she studied (and later worked), especially her mentor Engineering professor Mahmoud Farag. She also offers a sketch of students at AUC during the period she attended, and their social and recreational life. Her post-graduation doctoral study and career at an engineering firm with her husband are covered, along with the focus of her research. Shenouda speaks of her several decades teaching as an adjunct faculty member at AUC, and her interactions with students, indicating how student backgrounds, behavior, attitudes, and their careers changed over time. She also details her work as an instructor for AUC’s Engineering Services Unit which provided consulting for Egyptian industrial and manufacturing companies, and her establishment of and role in AUC’s polymers laboratory. Shenouda addresses the move to AUC’s new campus in New Cairo, contrasting conditions there with the close socializing among science faculty, staff and students at the downtown campus
Stephen Nimis Oral History
No full textStephen Nimis was a faculty member in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the 2000s and 2010s. Nimis sketches out his upbringing, education, and academic career prior to AUC. He describes leading study trips in Egypt for students from his university in the United States in the early 2000s, and being a visiting professor at AUC in 2002-03; he describes the downtown campus and neighborhood venues where faculty socialized at that time. Nimis speaks of taking a faculty position at AUC in 2014, and later serving as Department Chair. Faculty, staff, and students in AUC’s English and Comparative Literature Department are described, along with its academic programs and issues affecting the department. He speaks about ECLT’s place within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS), covering Deans, other HUSS departments with connections with ECLT, and the HUSS Lab program supporting humanities research, teaching, and public engagement. Nimis discusses the faculty’s and University Senate’s relationship with Presidents Lisa Anderson and Francis Ricciardone and the Board of Trustees, related to matters like the status of the Faculty Handbook, erosion of faculty benefits (such as bus service), university finances, upper administrative appointments, and the situation with tenure at AUC and controversial cases. Nimis mentions faculty responses like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter on campus and the Senate’s vote of no confidence in the President in 2019. The New Cairo Campus is described, along with the emphasis on security cameras and other measures, and the no-smoking policy introduced on campus for which Nimis proposed ideas. Nimis offers a portrait of his life in Cairo, from his faculty housing apartments in Zamalek and interaction with neighborhood residents from all walks of life, to taking public transportation and frequenting local eateries and cafes
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Remarks And Response To A Media Question 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 Remarks And Response To A Media Question At A Joint News Conference Following Talks With Un Secretary-general’s Special Envoy For Syria Staffan De Mistura, Mosco
