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AUC Highlights: 2024 Year in Review

December 12, 2024

Reliving our proudest moments of 2024, we showcase the AUC community's achievements, innovative initiatives, commitment to excellence and significant influence on the world.

The Reels We "Real-ly" Liked

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  • A female is tilting her head and smiling, she is wearing a light green shirt. Text: AUC Trailblazers featuring Menna El Kiey' '11. Songwriter and Creative Director
  • A man is smiling, he is wearing glasses and a brown jacket. Text: AUC Expert Express featuring John Hoey
  • a student with curly black hair wearing glasses and a lab coat

... And More

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  • a girl with long blond hair wearing a black shirt and black pants
  • a group of students taking a group photo beside the AUC library
  • a girl wearing a black cap and gown for her graduation party

The Athletes We Cheered

Shoutout to Our Eagles
athletes cheering
Amina Elfeky auc olympians
Two males standing with three athletes who are wearing medals and holding the Egyptian flag and The American University in Cairo
Swimmers jumping into the pool for a swimming competition
auc students winning at a swimming competition in Rome
Shoutout to Our Eagles

The Big Moments We Shared

Campus 2026 Groundbreaking

AUC celebrated a monumental milestone with the groundbreaking ceremony of the Campus 2026 project.

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a group of senior leaders standing next to each other each holding a shovel at the campus 2026 construction site
A man and a woman explore a wooden plank translating the Arabic alphabet into braille

AccessAUC, People with Disabilities Employee Mentorship and Development Program

Collage of Documents from the Archive

AUC Library Acquires Rare Archive in Collaboration with Prominent U.S. Institutions
Cars crossing on a bridge over the Nile. Text: AUC Tahrir CultureFest 2024 in front of the AUC star

Inaugural AUC Tahrir CultureFest
Tahrir palace and courtyard with scaffolding over the facade

Restoration of Historic Palace Facade in AUC Tahrir Square

The Books We Loved

Man in a blue shirt and glasses with a book cover that reads "Studies in Persian Architecture"

Bernard O’Kane Wins Iran's Book of the Year Award
Woman with a red book behind her reading Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

Dalal Abo El Seoud Publishes Challenges in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language with AUC Press
a girl with brown hair holding am orange book smiling

Mona Elzik ’24 Publishes Arabic Comic Book as Part of Undergrad Class
mikrufun katim book cover

Mohammed Tarazi Wins 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
aucpressbooks

AUC Press books among Top 50 Arabic Novels of the 20th Century
AUC Press Title "A Stranger In Baghdad" Wins he 2024 International Fiction Book Award at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF)

A Stranger In Baghdad by AUC Press Wins 2024 Sharjah International Fiction Award

a cover of a book The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes

The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes by AUC Press Selected Among Best of Books for 2024

The Difference We Make

Healthy Aging Research Partnership

AUC collaborates with Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative and UCL to undertake initiatives focused on Alzheimer's disease.

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Two men and a woman shake hands in front of a background from Brain Week 2024
a girl with black hair wearing a back blazer and standing in front of a microphone

Jasmine Moussa ’03, ’05 presents Egypt’s oral argument at International Court of Justice
auc alumni appointed ministers

Alumni Appointed Ministers in Egypt’s Cabinet
A collage showing an illustration of a disinfectant being spared on a table and killing the germs, and the second half of the collage shows an AUC chemistry professor in his lab coat smiling in the lab.

Long-Lasting, Cost-Effective Disinfectant
Hand touching water from a faucet

Tackling Water Scarcity Through AI
Researcher wearing VR headset, superimposed on a screenshot of the VR campus that the research team used to run the experiment

AUC Researchers Use VR to Reshape Campus Navigation
AUC campus

Top 2% Most Impactful Scientists and Scholars
a shark swimming in the deep blue sea

Red Sea Marine Biology
a woman with curly brown hair wearing a dotted bouse with a black shirt underneath

Coptic History and Ancient Egyptian Food

The Students Who Shined

Mark Morad smiles in front of the AUC garden

ScribeMe App for People with Visual Impairment
Three women smile on campus

Scan-Ha App for Sustainable Fashion
An AUC architecture student smiling and hoding a conference certificate and standing in front of the conference backdrop in Turkey

Saving Coastal Cities
Six males sitting on outdoor stairs

7 Out of 10 Top Thanawiya Amma Performers Join AUC

  • Rebuilding Gaza from the Rubble

  • Two females are standing in the middle of an audience. One of them is holding a laptop and a drink

    EGP 1 Million to Fund Egypt's First Student Discount App

  • A male is sitting in a room and working on his laptop. He is smiling and he is wearing bluetooth earbuds

    Award-Winning Speech Therapy App

  • Veiled student Mariam Mohsen is playing the piano

    Mariam Mohsen: 'I Can Do Even More'

  • A veiled female is talking. She is standing outdoors

    You Are Hired: AUC Students Land Jobs Before Graduation

  • A female is wearing headphones and talking into a microphone

    #PeopleOfAUC: Student Creates Award-Winning Podcast Through Audio Production Class

  • A male is standing and talking. The letters AUC are behind him in blue, coral and yellow

    Sustainable Tactiles on Campus

  • a girl with long black hair wearing a white jacket and blue shirt

    Using Banana Tree Waste to Create Sustainable Fishing Nets

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