Spring 2010

AUCTODAY MAIN

FEATURES

A Celebration of Success

The Golden Age

Beyond Literary Bounds

ACT One

What's Up With Downtown

From Inside AUC

Discovering A Foreign Land

AUSCENES
Queen Rania Al Abdullah ’91 speaks at AUC, new Board of Trustees member appointed, PhD program begins, provost starts new lecture series, Arabic Web site launched

LETTER

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Professor Salah Arafa honored for environmental work

ALUMNI PROFILE
Ethar El-Katatney ’07 is the first Egyptian to win CNN’s African Journalist of the Year Award

Nevine Loutfy ’74 is the first woman in the Arab world to head an
Islamic bank

Gala El Hadidi ’05, ’07 is the youngest singer to join the Cairo Opera Company

AROUND THE WORLD

AKHER KALAM
Gihane Refaat, a graduate of the
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership Center, recounts the lessons learned from the program

 
 What's Up
 With Downtown
Facelift revives Tahrir Square legacy as cultural hub


ACT One
The newly formed Alumni Community Theatre group is setting the stage for good-quality
theatre at AUC and in the Egyptian community.
MORE

Discovering A Foreign Land
AUC student Dalia
Abdel Ghany recounts
her study-abroad
experience in Japan. MORE
The Golden Age
The New Cairo Campus student residences, which opened in January 2009, offer students the opportunity to live on campus and enjoy campus life. MORE

A Reporter Without Borders
At 22, Ethar El-Katatney ’07
has been recognized internationally for
her journalistic work. MORE