July 22, 2018 Mostafa Kandil '15 Achieves Largest Round of Venture Capital Funding in Egypt Mostafa Kandil '15, co-founder and CEO of Swvl, a mobile app that organizes convenient transportation routes around Egypt at reasonable prices, was recently featured in
April 30, 2018 Building Momentum: Distinguished Alumni Awarded for Innovation, Global Impact “We’re doing great things at AUC,” said President Francis Ricciardone, looking out at a crowd of dedicated international alumni gathered to recognize the feats of their peers. “There’s an energy. There’s a momentum. We’re innovating all of the time.”
'Take the Next Challenge' Business Alum Khaled Bichara on Finding Success Khaled Bichara '96 may be a well-known business mogul now, but in the late 1990s, the bank had so little faith in his startup’s venture that he had to take a loan for the business out against his house.
April 24, 2018 AUC's Model United Nations, Model Arab League Break Records at International Conferences AUC's Cairo International Model United Nations (CIMUN) and Cairo International Model Arab League (CIMAL) broke records this year at their international conferences, taking home more awards than AUC teams have ever won before.
Why Do People Smoke? Faculty Insight from Research on Arab-Americans You’ve seen them, or maybe you take part: a gaggle of students blatantly smoking two meters in front of the new designated smoking areas. So, what’s the science behind our reasoning for picking up a cigarette -- or refusing to put one down?
April 23, 2018 AUC Hosts Harvard MBA Students for Panel on Entrepreneurship in Egypt “I, for one, will be keeping an eye on what’s happening in Egypt and how the economy is progressing as I go on with my career. I will stop and think about investing in a promising venture in Cairo or the Industrial Zone by the Red Sea when I have the means.”
Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub: Science, Creativity Go Hand in Hand For Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, science and creativity go hand in hand. In fact, creativity fosters science and vice versa.
July 22, 2018 'Catfishing in the Nile' Award-Winning Documentary Explores Online Blackmailing They’re uncomfortable to talk about and scary to think they could happen to everyone, but they do: catfishing, sexploitation, sextortion and blackmailing.
July 22, 2018 Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub to Speak at AUC Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; founder and director of research at the Harefield Heart Science Centre; and founder of the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation, will be speaking at AUC’s 2018 Research and
April 16, 2018 Haynes Mahoney to Spearhead Arts, Culture Community Initiative at AUC With just a cursory look at his résumé, Haynes Mahoney seems an unconventional choice to head AUC’s new neighborhood arts and culture initiative.
April 4, 2018 Want to be Successful? Challenge Yourself, Experts Advise Does anyone remember what it felt like being a university student, and having –– what seems to be –– the world’s weight on your shoulders? It feels like to be successful and influential, you must have everything together. But that's not the case at all.
Let's Talk Taxes: Two AUC Students Win EY Tax Competition Competing against 32 top accounting students from across Egypt, two AUC students –– Salma Fouad Abutaleb and Marina Philip –– won first and second place, respectively, at the EY [Ernst & Young] Tax Competition, hosted at AUC.
AUC Showcases Latest Research in Egypt's National Conference for Scientific Research AUC showcased its latest research at Egypt's National Conference for Scientific Research: Releasing Egyptian Potential, which was recently organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research under the auspices of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
March 27, 2018 A Job Well Done: AUC Hosts Middle States Commission on Higher Education Team After a rigorous self-assessment process and the production of a 100-page self-study report, AUC welcomed a team from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) last week to observe the University’s congruence with its self-study, determine AUC’s compliance with the MSCHE standards