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Lammert Holdijk Oral History
No full textLammert Holdijk was a faculty member at the American University in Cairo from 1982 to 2014, serving for most of that time as Associate Director/Associate Chair of the Writing Program and later Department of Rhetoric and Composition. Of Dutch-German parentage, he tells of his travels from Europe and the United States, where he spent his youth, to Beirut and then Cairo where he and his Lebanese wife settled in the early 1980s. He provides an account of his embrace of Sufi Islam, and his connections with locals and foreigners involved with that community in Egypt. Holdijk traces the development of the Writing Program at AUC, including its relationship with its parent department, English and Comparative Literature, and how its 2007 separation into its own department, Rhetoric and Composition, came about. He discusses the faculty in the Writing Program and the Rhetoric Department, its operations and methods on matters like grading, course offerings, his integration of computing in the program, and challenges like plagiarism and securing necessary resources from the administration. A portrait of AUC students over the years is given, from their academic and social background to motivations and worldviews
Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos Security Council Briefing On Syria
No full textUnder-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos Security Council Briefing On Syri
Mokhtar Shalaby Oral History
No full textMokhtar Shalaby was on staff at AUC from 2008 to 2015 as Assistant Director and then Director of Security. He briefly covers his upbringing and career with the Cairo Police Department and the Ministry of Interior, and recalls, while assigned to the Abdeen police station in the 1970s, joining other officers in football (soccer) matches with AUC students. He tells of coming to AUC as Assistant Director of Security responsible for the Tahrir Square Campus, and outlines aspects of handling security there in the years prior to 2011. Shalaby details AUC Security’s response to the demonstrations of the January-February 2011 revolution, as it dealt with protestors entering campus buildings. Actions to safeguard the campus during protests throughout 2011, 2012, and 2013 are addressed, from fire prevention measures to the boarding of Science Building windows and heightening walls and fences. He discusses how AUC security staff reacted during the Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes in late 2011, for example in dealing with the large numbers of tear gas canisters falling onto the Main Campus grounds. Shalaby explains the restructuring of AUC’s security operations in 2011, with the departure of Director Ashraf Kamal and the appointment of Mahmoud Zouk as Executive Director of Public Safety, as well as later changes in personnel and reporting lines. The 2012 student strike is discussed, with Shalaby revealing (although the New Cairo Campus was out of his scope of responsibility at that time) the harder-line stance (involving the police, legal action, etc.) he advised the AUC administration to take with respect to the protesting students. Shalaby’s time as Director of Security at AUC from 2013 to 2015 is covered, and he comments on the size of the security guard workforce, their responsibilities, and training. Aspects of security on the New Cairo campus discussed include the use of closed circuit cameras, parking enforcement, and episodes ranging from the discovery of a fake bomb to an escaped camel gaining entry to campus
