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مثال على الدبلومة الممنوحة خلال الفترة الاستعمارية، المدرسة الوطنية للزراعة (الكلية الزراعية)، مكناس
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No full text######, a 20-year old engineering student at Ain Shams University, describes his participation in Egypt’s revolutionary period. He states that he had been dissatisfied with the Mubarak regime, although he lacked any prior political affiliation nor had he participated in protests before 2011. Having followed events on social media, ######, at the time a teenage high school Thanaweya Amma student, he tells of joining the demonstrations on January 28, 2011, and standing at the front lines confronting the police and witnessing the kind of police and army brutality that he had been hearing of since childhood. When not protesting, he participated in a local ligan sha’abiyah watch group protecting his neighborhood. He also tells of participating in demonstrations against Ahmed Shafik, and states his opinion that the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) represented an extension of the Mubarak regime. He states his opposition to the demonstrations against President Mohamed Morsi on June 30, 2013, saying that Morsi should have been allowed to serve out his full term as a democratically-elected president, and decries the government’s violent response to pro-Morsi demonstrators in Rab’a and Nahda Squares. He also notes that he was against the election of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as president, and mentions his plans to go abroad outside of Egypt after completing his studies.The University on the Square: Documenting Egypt's 21st Century Revolution project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew Snaith Oral History
No full textAndrew Snaith served as the American University in Cairo’s chief financial officer for more than three decades (as Vice President for Finance and under other titles), administering various offices and services during his time at the university from the mid-1970s though 2010. His oral history (which complements a financial history of AUC he wrote), offers a detailed view of the university’s financial condition and administrative operations, which he connects to world events, developments in the Egyptian economy (such as Sadat’s Open Door Economic Policy), and relations with Egypt’s government in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. British by birth, Snaith came to AUC in the mid-1970s to work with its endowment operations, and he details the multi-decade evolution of AUC’s investment management as well as its funding sources, including U.S. government support. Snaith covers major developments during each of the presidents under whom he served (in particular AUC’s expansion of campus, enrollment, and academic programs and restoration to financial health under President Richard Pedersen), as well as their styles of leadership and the role played by the Board of Trustees. The relationship between finances and developments in the academic sphere is addressed, and major issues concerning student tuition and faculty compensation emerge including resistance to tuition hikes, moves to address discrepancies in salary and benefits between foreign and local hires, and the controversy over attempts under President Donald McDonald to mandate a retirement age for Egyptian faculty in the 1990s. The practices of AUC’s financial units are covered in detail, including structural changes, computerization and the adoption of new systems (like the major SAP implementation), and challenges related to operating in two currencies. He mentions the contributions of important individuals in the Controller’s Office, Purchasing, and other units, and touches on personnel practices and office dynamics including religion and gender diversity issues. Snaith speaks at length about the motivations for, planning, funding, and financial operations and implications of AUC’s relocation to a new campus in New Cairo in the first decade of the 21st century, detailing the key decisions and individuals and entities (such as contractors) involved. Research units supported in large parts by external grants, like the Desert Development Center and Social Research Center, and auxiliary enterprises (like the AUC Press, student housing, and food services) are also covered in detail
Shems Friedlander Oral History
No full textShems Friedlander was a faculty member in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1994 to 2014. He outlines his art education and early jobs, and discusses his career in graphic design for magazines in the United States as well as professional methods in the field. Friedlander relates how he came to work at AUC, teaching graphic design in the Department of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC), and discusses how the program changed as technologies evolved, and his own introduction of computer-based design tools at AUC. His teaching of photography and art is also covered, as well as his role with the AUC Photographic Gallery, contributions to art on the New Cairo Campus, and the well-known photographers and other artists and cultural figures he had associated with over the years. He offers observations on the JRMC department and its place at the university, and on students at AUC. Friedlander also provides an account of his spiritual life, including his embrace of Sufism and Islam and associations with Sufi orders in the United States, Egypt, and Turkey
Laurence Moftah Oral History
No full textLaurence Moftah was a librarian at AUC from the 1970s through 2020s, as emerita in later years. She recalls how she entered library work and her early years in the library. Moftah describes the library buildings and facilities and how these changed over the years, and offers sketches of various library directors and staff members. Her various roles in the library are covered, in particular her work in reference service, which she addresses in detail (including how she built and managed her team, interactions with AUC faculty members, collection development efforts, and the Egypt Articles project). Moftah speaks about her graduate academic study in English literature and Middle East Studies at AUC, offering portraits of faculty with whom she worked, and addresses her experience as an older student. She gives a perspective on the library’s internal dynamics and views on how AUC changed over time (student body, community, campuses). Some of her efforts for Coptic heritage preservation (including placement of historical family resources with the Library) and the development of Copic Studies at AUC are also covered
