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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
20140512 interview
No full text######, a 65 year-old artist, gives her account of her experience of the 2011 revolution in Egypt. She had taken part in student protests in 1972 in Alexandria and participated in other movements during the mid-1970s. Learning about the Tahrir protests from her children (who had been in-formed through Facebook), she participated in the 18 days of demonstrations, whose sense of community across diverse social classes, religions and ages she recalls. ###### also describes the clashes between protesters and security forces, having witnessed the attacks on protesters praying on Kasr El Nil bridge and a young man getting shot in the eye which resulted in her be-ing sprayed with blood. The interviewee comments on the safety situation and the efforts of young protestors to protect public property like the Egyptian Museum in Tahir Square. She also tells of her participation in a women’s march as well as the June and July 2013 protests in Tahrir Square. Also covered are her views on the Egyptian media coverage of the revolution up to the 2013 protests, and on Egyptian politics from President Mubarak’s removal through President Morsi’s ouster and the 2014 presidential elections.The University on the Square: Documenting Egypt's 21st Century Revolution project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Liz England Oral History
No full textLiz England was a faculty member in the American University in Cairo’s English Language Institute in the mid-1980s and then again in the early 2000s. She compares the university in both periods she taught at AUC, discussing AUC’s administration, services, and campus. She describes the Teaching English as a Foreign Language Master’s degree program in which she taught, the ELI Directors who oversaw the program, its students and Teaching Fellows. The wider field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and professional groups in Egypt are also covered. England gives an account of life in Egypt in the 1980s with her young son, on topics ranging from recreation and travel to food to interactions with Egyptians, offering a comparison with the 2000s; she also discusses the political atmosphere in the later period
