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April 13 , 2008

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Nationwide strike, protests lure some AUC students


Taking A Stand: The banner, draped across the Greek plat, reads" Together against rising prices and corruption" Youssef Abdelaal/Caravan Staff	Secure Tahrir: Police officers carry riot gear as they cross Kasr El-Aini Street on April 6 Youssef Abdelaal/Caravan Staff

By Sarah Wali

Caravan Freelancer

Developments—and repercussions—continued to unfold in Egypt and the American University in Cairo (AUC) after the April 6 general strike.

Two AUC student protestors, jailed for three days and two nights, were released; the organizer of the 50,000-member Facebook group, April 6, was arrested and a new strike was called for May 4. In still other developments, a third person died in the Mahalla textile factory strike and more than 500 people were reported arrested nationwide.
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“What do you know about Denmark?”

By Riham El houshi
Caravan Reporter

Students from the Danish Royal Military Academy and the American University in Cairo (AUC) agreed to take equal responsibility for increasing understanding about each other’s cultures, both in the Arab world and in Europe.
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Controversial journalist El Ebrashi
inspires students to get involved

By Dina Maaty
Caravan Reporter

With a total of 63 cases filed against him, Wael El Ebrashi, editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Sawt El Umma, admits to being one of the Egyptian journalists most frequently found in court for alleged press law violations during an exclusive interview with the Caravan.
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Ara Güler at The Sony Gallery

By Omar Nofal
Caravan Reporter

The Sony Gallery at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is currently showcasing The Classic Photographs of award-winning Turkish photographer Ara Güler.
“[The photographs] depict an Istanbul that does not exist any longer. It’s a journey into the past,” said Shems Friedlander, director of the Sony Gallery, at the opening of the exhibition on March 31.
The exhibition will run until April 23.
“Photography and journalism are two areas where they juxtapose the intersection of art and real life,” said Turkish ambassador Safak Gökturk, at the opening.
“He balances out both composition and the attitudes and surroundings; [the photographs] show beautiful balance and angle,” said Helwan Seba, a fine arts graduate from the University of Helwan.
Born in Istanbul in 1928 and receiving an Armenian education, Güler joined the world-renowned Magnum Photos collective in 1961 and was awarded the Master of Leica photography award in 1962.
According to the Sony Gallery booklet, Güler’s photographs are so powerful that viewers feel, “the perspiration of a worker, the love of a mother; the wind created by the flight of birds or the captured stillness of a sacred space.”

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