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Om Kalthum, legendary Egyptian singer, songwriter and artist, held her first
major performance at Ewart Hall in 1937
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Kofi Annan, seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and recipient of the 2001
Nobel Peace Prize, inaugurated the Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture series in 2005 |
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The late Edward Said, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University,
was the keynote speaker at AUC’s Model United Nations inaugural conference in 1989 |
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and recipient of the 2002
Nobel Peace Prize, visited AUC in 2008
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Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and known as the father of modern linguistics, visited AUC in 1993 |
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| Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state and the first African American woman to serve
in that position, spoke at AUC in 2005 |
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Boutros Ghali, sixth secretary-general of the United
Nations, visited AUC in the 1970s and in 2003
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| Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state and former first lady of the United States,
visited AUC in 1999 |
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Taha Hussein, literary scholar and former minister of education, visited AUC in
the 1950s |
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| Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States, winner of the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize and environmentalist activist, visited AUC in 1994 |
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Karen Armstrong, British author of numerous works on comparative religion,
delivered a weeklong series of lectures in 2005 |
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Mary Robinson, first female president of Ireland and former United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, visited AUC in 2007 |
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| Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize
for literature, visited AUC in 1989 |
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria visited AUC in 1995
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| Robert Penn Warren,American poet and novelist who received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and 1979, visited AUC in 1966 |
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| Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Muhammed Tantawi visited AUC in 1995 and 2004 |
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Mohammed Heikal, leading Egyptian journalist and former editor in chief of
Al Ahram newspaper, visited AUC in 1995 and 2007 |
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| AUC Trustee Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize winner, director general of the
International Atomic Energy Agency and recipient of an honorary doctorate from AUC |
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AUC Trustee Ahmed Zewail, Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics at Caltech, winner
of the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry and recipient of an honorary doctorate from AUC |
