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Joint Statement On Security Council Resolution 2165 On Humanitarian Access In Syria
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Statement On Syria Under-secretary-general For Humanitarian Affairs And Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos
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Barbi Eysselinck Oral History
No full textBarbi Eysselinck was Faculty Services Coordinator at the American University in Cairo from 1987-1994, and returned to AUC in the early 2000s, working in the library. She recalls her family’s arrival in Egypt in 1985, and describes how her husband Walter Eysselinck developed AUC’s Theater Program, and later chaired the new Theater, Music, Arts, and Film (later Performing and Visual Arts) Department. She speaks about other arts and theater faculty, arts initiatives like the Cairo Choral Society, and visiting performers at AUC. Her own study of anthropology at AUC is mentioned. Barbi discusses her role as AUC’s Faculty Services Coordinator, offering anecdotes about trips and events she arranged, and indicating the services the university provided (orientation, housing, etc.) to support faculty and their families. Having made a return to Cairo in the early 2000s, she mentions her work at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Barbi provides a detailed portrait of life for a foreigner in Cairo in the 1980s and 1990s, making comparisons with the 2000s and 2010s. She tells stories of her family’s adjustment to Egypt in the 1980s, in terms of the challenges of shopping for food and clothing, and the limited availability of household appliances and other conveniences, but the general ease in dealing with those limitations. Her children’s education at Cairo American College also receives attention. Recreation, entertainment, and social life are covered, along with owning and driving a car in Egypt, and travel in the country and abroad. Eysselinck gives a description of Maadi, the district where she lived in the 1980s and 1990s, from its houses to restaurants to residents, and explains how the neighborhood changed over the years. Barbi also makes observations about Egypt, from local arts and crafts, to changes in the way people dressed, to street harassment of women. Eysselinck also offers a sketch of personalities at AUC, from President Richard Pedersen to airport greeter Abdel Messih Meawad, as well as local cultural notables like artist Margo Veillon and author Naguib Mahfouz
