The Grand Egyptian Museum opened it doors on November 1, 2025. AUC community members weighed in on what the opening means for Egypt, Egyptology, and the world.

With the support of the new Kerr Family Scholarship, AUC freshman Malak Hashem is on her path to becoming an architect whose buildings will address challenges to sustainability faced by communities ...

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For better service, the Travel Office has secured excellent corporate deals with unique hotels to ensure a comfortable stay for The American University in Cairo (AUC) community. Note that the US ...

If you have not yet received the required supporting documents (such as a letter of acceptance for a conference presentation or a letter of acceptance from the host institution for the ...

Sabbatical, pre-tenure, professional development, and leave without pay will be processed by submitting an online form that will flow automatically from faculty members to the department chair to the ...

Ashraf Nassef is is a professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Sciences and Engineering at The American University in Cairo. Gaafar, L.K., Nassef, A.O., and Aly, A.I., “Fixed Quantity ...

AUC’s minor in Sustainable Energy empowers students to become innovators in one of the world’s most critical fields. Blending engineering, economics, and sustainability, the program explores renewable ...

AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology have consistently topped its best seller list. Explore selections from the ...

It is a common belief that the tradition of Mother’s Day began in the West, originating from Greek and Roman spring festivals dedicated to maternal goddesses and Mothering Sunday observed in the ...

The Egyptian pound weakened against the dollar again last Wednesday in a second dip since the Central Bank of Egypt announced the flotation of Egypt’s currency on October 27, 2022. The pound has ...

Recently, Physics World magazine announced that Elham Fadaly ’13 and her team at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands won the Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year. Recently ...