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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine - A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi

To situate the recent genocidal war in Gaza within its century-long historical and political context, renowned historian Rashid Khalidi, will be delivering a talk titled “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.” The talk will explore the present moment through a broader historical lens, offering a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped the Palestinian struggle, the ramifications of th...

Nov

Invisible Territories: A Story of a Monastery, a Well and the Formation of the Sovereign in Egypt

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Through ethnographic fieldwork, my research tackles a recent legal and political conflict: a major monastery versus a Bedouin family over a charity well. This dispute immediately reveals the nested sovereignty (Simpson, 2017) that exists at the local level between state and non-state entities in Egypt.Crucially, I show that local sovereign non-state actors don't publicly claim their governing ...

Oct

L’Echo | الصدى

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

In this powerful duet, choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza, alongside actress Valérie Dréville, explore the body as a vessel for the imagination. L’echo delves into the potential and expressive nature of dance, which they find to be a spoken word within the body. The two artists met through the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny (MC93), in an encounter striving to break down...

Oct

DRONE: Testimonies and Music | درون: شهادات وموسيقى

Oct 22 – Oct 23

10:00 pm – 10:45 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

DRONE, written and directed by Andrea Assaf, is a multimedia theatre exploration of the drone as a metaphor for desensitisation to global violence and the effects of remote-control warfare on the human soul. It also centers the quest of moral injury–the psychological and spiritual wounds caused by acting against one’s own moral beliefs. Testimonies & Music presents a reworked version of DRONE, ...

Nov

IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM) 2025

Nov 4 – Nov 6

9:00 am

AUC Tahrir Square

Join this gathering of global researchers to share knowledge on the latest communications and networking topics.

Oct

D-CAF: The Body Symphonic | الجسد السيمفوني

Oct 25 – Oct 26

8:00 pm – 8:50 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

“The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly.” – Etel Adnan The body symphonic is a performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance. The work engages with the body as it journeys through rituals of excavation–revealing new and unbound mythologies that allow for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to...

Dec

Awful Anthropology: On the Pains of Doing Anthropology that Breaks your Heart

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Hear Professor Maryam Fouad on the affective and ethical burdens of fieldwork, exploring how anthropology's power lies in bearing witness.

Oct

The Light Within | نور

8:00 pm – 8:40 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Light Within explores the notion of inner light. How do we continue to shine in dark times? How can we stand in solidary, in unity, in community? On stage, a dance trio plays with the edges of light and dark. يستكشف عرض "نور" فكرة النور الداخلي. كيف نستمر في الإشعاع في الأوقات الحالكة؟ كيف نقف في تضامن ووحدة وجماعة؟ على خشبة المسرح، يلعب ثلاثي من الراقصين على حافتي النور والظلام.

Oct

Campus Book Fair

Oct 26 – Oct 30

9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Come explore AUC’s graduate programs, meet with admission representatives, attend program-specific sessions and chat with faculty members from various disciplines.

Oct

D-CAF: Gaza O My Joy | غزة أيها الفرح

8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet in War Time? is a poem by Hend Jouda, published on her Facebook in October 2023, at the height of the massacres in Gaza. Iconic and immediately viral, it was translated into multiple languages. This fundamental question forms the backbone of the show, which gathers other poems that bear witness to the tragedy, terror and desolation. It also explores the poets’ and...