Alumni Reflect on their time at the university

What would you do differently if you went back as a student? • I would have not taken Quantum Mechanics • Avoid the business administration major • Spend less time programming at the computer lab    and take more electives in the social sciences • Not get too worried or stressed out from midterms    or finals. Now I know there is nothing worth    stressing over Zahran, Salama and Obeid

Favorite stereotypes about AUCians

• Gucci corner
• Smart and progressive
• We were all Beatles or Hippies
• Doers and achievers in the workplace
• Special local, regional and international people
• The dollar signs people see once they know you are from AUC. Like in cartoons, my eyes are two $$, and my    mouth might turn into a cash register
• Deterministic and knowledgeable
• Spoiled kids, join AUC to play and are overwhelmingly Westernized, in the bad sense of the word

 

Most important thing AUC taught you

• Persistence and taking initiative
• Believe in myself
• Think outside the box
• Everything can be proven with the right evidence and arguments
• Success is the result of small efforts carried out day after day
• Depend on external sources for increasing knowledge: our days, the library; today, the Net; tomorrow, who    knows?

 

Special memories

•Wednesday nights at the Caravan preparing the paper to go to print
• Thursday movie nights, platform, between courts, Fountain Area
• Skipping class once to have breakfast at Semiramis, hanging out at the platform steps to check out passers    by and having chocolate cake at the JC restaurant
• Very long meetings we carried out to organize charity events and conferences
• In one of my class presentations, I led a team of three people and chose to support a very controversial topic    that most people would normally be opposing. I was taking a contrary side on this topic in real life, but my    goal was to challenge myself. I worked hard to prepare for this debate, arranged the right arguments and    the debate was a massive success for my team. I have been debating skillfully ever since, and have loved    doing presentations


Shaaban and El Sherbini

Mourad Rouchdy '73, United Arab Emirates Mohamed Almahallawi (MA '85), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Karim Ibrahim '77, '93 United Arab Emirates Magda Smith '86,Australia Noha Salama ’91, Germany Mahmoud Obeid ’91, Jordan

Heba Shaaban '92, '05, United Arab Emirates Islam Sarhan '93, United Arab Emirates Tarek El Sherbini '97, United Kingdom Karim Eissa '99, United Kingdom Ahmed Zahran '02, Egypt Raghda El Ebrashi '04, '07, Egypt