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Jazz Diplomacy: America's Conversation with the World

Join us as we discover how the U.S. used jazz as a tool of cultural diplomacy during the Cold War, sending jazz musicians abroad to promote American values and counter Soviet influence. Jazz symbolized freedom and democracy but also highlighted racial tensions in the U.S., creating a paradox. These tours influenced global perceptions of America and supported civil rights movements at home and a...

Oct

Office of Student Life: ART FEST

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Dive into the Student Life Art Festival! Explore vibrant art forms, discover new interests, and celebrate creativity.

Oct

Office of Student Life: GAME ON

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

The Office of Student Life Game On is a lively carnival and arcade-themed event designed to bring the AUC community together for a fun, interactive, and engaging experience. The event aims to foster a stronger sense of community spirit. Game On seeks to strengthen community engagement, celebrate student creativity, and encourage collective support for student initiatives in an exciting and soci...

Oct

Office Student Life: Cocurricular Carnival

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

This event is led by the office of student life and aims at promoting the importance of co-curricular life as part of AUC's liberal arts education. It showcases the impact of co-curricular activities on AUC students. The event includes the AUC dances' troupes, arts and cultural programs performances on stage presenting beneficial art and developmental aspects of AUC students participating in co...

Oct

Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture

Oct 26 – Oct 28

9:30 am

AUC Tahrir Square

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.

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...