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Tarik Saleh Oral History
No full textTarik Saleh attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate student from 1969 to 1973. He tells the story of his Egyptian father Ahmed Abdel Ghaffar Saleh and Scottish mother Gertrude Florence Farmer marrying after meeting at graduate school in Scotland in the 1930s. Saleh speaks about his father’s career as an agricultural scientist and academic in Egypt, where he held Dean positions at Alexandria and Ain Shams universities, and offers a portrait of his father’s service as Vice President at AUC from 1965 to 1974. Numbering among Abdel Ghaffar Saleh’s contributions were intervention with government authorities to keep the AUC campus safe and avoid potential nationalization in the wake of the 1967 War, securing release of detained students and facilitating work permissions for foreign personnel, addressing student admission and staff labor issues, and efforts that resulted in AUC receiving official recognition of its academic degrees. Abdel Ghaffar Saleh’s professional relationships and contacts are highlighted as key to interceding with government officials to assist AUC, along with his integrity and effective but low-keyed managerial style. The way that AUC administrators handled his father’s departure, and how he was recognized in later years, are decried. Tarik Saleh offers a portrait of his own upbringing in Alexandria and Cairo’s Heliopolis, including schooling, recreation, and taking up ballet dancing in the footsteps of his sister, renowned ballerina Magda Saleh. He recalls the political climate in Egypt in his youth (and how his father navigated it), and his friendship with the sons of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, including anecdotes about Nasser and his family. The stories of one son borrowing the sports car of Molly Bartlett, wife of AUC President Thomas Bartlett (and the resulting damage to the automobile), and of daughter Mona Nasser’s time at AUC, are told. A vivid account of a year of high school and travel spent in the United States through an exchange program is also given. Saleh entered AUC in 1969, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1973. Saleh recounts his role in AUC’s Student Government and its reorganization as the Student Union. Also discussed is the political engagement of AUC students, including their discontent with Egypt’s political situation prior to the 1973 War, and Saleh’s representing AUC students in making an address to the Egyptian Parliament. He describes the AUC student body, including social groups, fashion trends, and relationships between male and female students (after graduation Saleh married a classmate). Student activities and events like athletics, the folklore troupe, the talent show, and the Miss AUC contest are also recalled, as well as Dean of Students Frank Blanning and other administrators he and other students interacted with. A sketch of Saleh’s post-AUC career in Egypt’s petroleum and natural gas profession, including an account of Hurghada in the 1970s, is also provided
Richard “Rick” Tutwiler Oral History
No full textRick Tutwiler served as Director of the American University in Cairo’s Desert Development Center (DDC), later reconstituted as the Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE), for about two decades after his 2001 appointment. Tutwiler had attended AUC as an undergraduate study-abroad student in 1971, and he describes his fellow students, social life, entertainment, dormitory and off-campus living, finances, food, travel, and participation in extracurricular activities like theater and the yearbook. He discusses his studies and career in anthropology and agriculture in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, and elsewhere, and outlines the history of the DDC before his arrival, including the contributions of major figures like founder Adli Bishay, donor John Goelet, and others. A portrait of the Center’s land, facilities, staff, finances, fundraising, training and research programs, and agricultural production is provided, including conditions present upon Tutwiler’s arrival and changes he introduced. The Center’s role in the landscaping of AUC’s new campus in New Cairo is detailed, as well as the discontinuation of the DDC’s leases on the land occupied by its research centers and farms in South Tahrir and Sadat City, and its consolidation on the New Cairo campus as RISE (Research Institute for Sustainable Development), and its ultimate closure. Tutwiler also discusses faculty issues at AUC, and the role of and his involvement with the University Senate, for which he served a term as Chair. Life for an American family living in Egypt is also covered
Paul Geday Oral History
No full textPaul Geday attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate from 1974 to 1979, and as a Master’s degree student in the Adham Center for Television Journalism in the 1980s. He describes the AUC student body in the 1970s, indicating its diversity and the attraction of the university for its liberal arts education and as a refuge. A Chemistry major, Geday spent much of his time at AUC pursuing theater activities, serving as its long-time lighting and technical director. He recollects the many productions mounted, student participants, and theater spaces. David Woodman, the faculty member heading the theater program, is described, along with the extensive responsibilities accorded to students involved in theater at AUC. A portrait of student social life if offered, including entertainment events and a sketch of the areas of campus frequented by various groups of students. Food options are mentioned, as well as the film on the AUC cafeteria he made with a documentary filmmaker. Geday recounts his study towards a Master’s degree at the newly established Adham Center for Television Journalism in the late 1980s, including the instructors and his projects. He outlines his wide-ranging career is covered, from work in his father’s leather company to theater production, advertising, publishing, photography, and filmmaking. Geday also laments recent alterations to the AUC Tahrir Square campus, including the demolition of the Science Building, whose architectural features he praises
Draft Resolution / Russian Federation
No full textDraft Resolution [on Condemning Aggression Against The Syrian Arab Republic By The United States And Its Allies
Draft Resolution / Russian Federation
No full textDraft Resolution [on Use Of Chemical Weapons In The Syrian Arab Republic
Implementation Of Security Council Resolutions
No full textImplementation Of Security Council Resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017) And 2401 (2018) : Report Of The Secretary-genera
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Opening Remarks At A Plenary Meeting Of The Syrian National Dialogue Congress, Sochi, January 30, 2018
No full textForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Opening Remarks At A Plenary Meeting Of The Syrian National Dialogue Congress, Sochi, January 30, 201
Press statement on the alleged use of chemical weapons in eastern Ghouta
No full textPress statement on the alleged use of chemical weapons in eastern Ghout
