School of Humanities and Social Sciences | The American University in Cairo

Qahwa & Kalam: Muslim Scholars in West Africa on the Eve of Colonialism

Join us for an interesting talk, tackling how the West African Islamic clerisy was caught in the midst of a revolution against a perceivedly corrupt indigenous political establishment in the nineteenth century.

Oct

Mahshi: Food, Literature and Translation

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join us for an exciting talk featuring translator Randa Abo Baker, who will explore the intriguing ways food is integrated into the narrative of the novel Kohl and Cardamom.

Oct

Theater performance - “Sa7ebna” (Our Friend)

Oct 17 – Oct 20

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

When a wealthy group of five friends reunite at a fancy summer home in the North Coast in Egypt (El-Sahel), their gathering takes an unexpected turn when they suddenly find out through social media that their sixth absent friend, Taymour, is getting married on the very same day - without inviting any of them. As they are forced to confront long-buried conflicts, secrets, insecurities, and feel...

Oct

The Middle East After Nasrallah

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

This talk will discuss the future of the Middle East in light of Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination and the recent escalation of violence. How will the region navigate the dynamics of instability and the prospects for geopolitical changes and regional war?

Oct

Isis String Orchestra Featuring Winners of Nicolas Latif Music Awards 2024

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join this exciting night with Isis String Orchestra, a Cairo-based amateur orchestra that focuses on Western classical music with light compositions from the Arabic repertoire.

Nov

Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Geometries of Imperialism in the 21st Century, Featuring Étienne Balibar

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join the renowned French philosopher Étienne Balibar's lecture on imperialism, inspired by Edward Said's Orientalism, analyzing modernity's cultural divides and domination structures.

Sep

Ensemble Aventure Performs Leqaát, Encounters

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Ensemble Aventure is a Freiburg-based contemporary music ensemble of Egyptian and German composers renowned for its concert series, international collaborations as well as numerous premieres. This concert program focuses on the encounters between oriental cultural traditions and contemporary music of Western influence. This is particularly evident in the new works by composers Amr Okba, Hossa...

Sep

Egypt’s 1919 Revolution: Searching for Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Archive

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Don't miss this interesting talk with Dina Heshmat of AUC as she shares memoirs, articles, poems, short stories and unpublished letters of nationalist and feminist activists of the revolution of 1919.

Sep

(What is) Feminist Metaphysics?

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

AUC New Cairo

“What is metaphysics?” is a question highly debated and not easy to answer. In contemporary philosophy, metaphysics is often understood as the area of the discipline that asks (and tries to answer) “what is x?”-questions, that is, questions that target the nature, definition or “essence” of things broadly construed (i.e., objects as well as ideas and concepts). We tend to think that trying to a...

Oct

The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School.

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

In the article, Dr. Ramy Aly presents experiences of Egyptians who were too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, yet they are animated by it in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution ...