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Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture

Bringing together practitioners and scholars working on entertainment, arts, literature and language, this interdisciplinary conference is devoted to the complex relationship between mainstream and margin in contemporary Egyptian culture. Egypt’s cultural industries have undergone profound transformations in recent years. How are these transformations serving to unsettle boundaries between ‘hig...

Oct

Public Finance Challenges: Debt, Public Spending and the Budget Deficit

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Don’t miss this timely talk with Egypt's Minister of Finance Ahmed Kouchouk ’99, tackling Egypt’s fiscal reforms, debt and spending priorities.

Sep

What Time Is It Now?

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join Steffen Stelzer as he reflects on his lifelong journey as both a student and teacher of philosophy.

Oct

Mental Health Week 2025

Oct 19 – Oct 23

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Celebrate Campus Sustainability Month with fun activities, creative workshops and eco-friendly giveaways throughout October.

Oct

GDA Meetup 5: Design After AI - From Tools to Vision

10:00 am

AUC Tahrir Square

GDA Meetup is the Arab world’s leading design gathering, bringing together designers, brands, agencies, and students for one day of talks, case studies, portfolio reviews, and hands-on workshops. Design After AI From Tools to Vision. We explore how creativity, strategy, and culture drive outcomes in an AI-powered era beyond tool mastery. Highlights: - Keynotes by industry leaders - Bran...

Sep

I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) is hosting a conversation with Mai Serhan, 99’, 17’, about her newly published I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir (AUC Press, 2025). Mai Serhan is also the author of the poetry collection CAIRO: The Undelivered Letters (Diwan Publishing, 2025), which won the Center for Book Arts Poetry Award in 2022. The conversation ...

Sep

U.S. Immigration Policies: Challenges for African and Middle Eastern Migrants

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) warmly invites you to an engaging lecture on the history and current challenges of U.S. immigration policy for African and Middle Eastern Migrants. Event Details: Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025 Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Venue: Room 602, Hill House, Tahrir Campus, AUC Through this lec...

Sep

Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

AUC New Cairo

In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on her mother’s memories and stories of migration, violence, sexuality, queerness, domesticity, and the intimate economies of everyday life, Charania conceptualizes her mother’s tongue as an object of theory and an archive of brown intimate life. By ...

Sep

Power and Politics Through Keywords (And the Politics of Land)

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Power and politics do operate through keywords in everyday life. “No trespassing” is one of the most ubiquitous keywords we see in the world. It is deployed in order to claim and protect the ownership of something, often land, by someone. It is a keyword that excludes. Keywords neither self-interpret nor self-implement. Activation of keywords unfolds in the actual dynamics of social relations a...

Oct

She Arts Festival 2025

Oct 2 – Oct 5

10:00 am – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

From the stage to the screen, from creativity in motion to art you can touch; She Arts Festival 2025 brings it all. This year’s edition is powered by an extraordinary lineup of pillars that celebrate women in every corner of the arts: - Music Concerts - Dance Performances - Theatrical Performance - Music Competition - Visual Arts - Workshops & Masterclasses - Handcrafts Bazaar - Film...