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Letter from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council
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Ministerial Meeting On Syria - Paris Declaration Of The Core Group, Paris
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Salah El Haggar Oral History
No full textSalah El Haggar was a mechanical engineering faculty member at the American University in Cairo from the mid-1980s to the 2020s. El Haggar recounts his upbringing, education (including graduate study in the United States starting in 1979), and early career. He describes AUC’s engineering department when he arrived in the mid-1980s, and the creation of the Mechanical Engineering Department and other specialized departments. He covers interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering faculty and science faculty (including various centers) over the years, as well as his own work with AUC’s Desert Development Center and Social Research Center in the 1980s and 1990s in areas like community development and renewable energy. The Deans of the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE) are discussed, along with the approaches that Provosts and Presidents like Richard Pedersen, Lisa Anderson, and others took toward science and engineering programs at AUC. The issue of securing scientific equipment is addressed, along with the facilities (including space limitations) on the old downtown campus and those available on the New Cairo Campus, and the challenges of the move to the new campus and the related efforts of SSE Dean Medhat Haroun. El Haggar discusses his time as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, its specializations, and student enrollment issues. He speaks of his engagement with students, and offers observations on how they have changed over time, including the impact of the 2011 Revolution in Egypt (for example on the 2012 student strike). El Haggar discusses the emergence of environmental engineering programs at AUC in the 1990s, and his own research in the field, such as in the area of environmentally sustainable “green” buildings. He tells of his related consulting work and involvement in international and national initiatives and organizations in environmentally sustainable architecture, as well as with the Egyptian NGO Association for the Protection of the Environment
