The American University in Cairo: 100 Years, 100 Stories

by Andrew Humphreys, Gadi Farfour

Overview

In 2019, the American Universityin Cairo (AUC) celebrates its centenary. Founded on Tahrir Square, the university has been at the center of the intellectual, social, and cultural life of Cairo and Egypt for the last one hundred years, and is hailed as one of the leading academic institutions in the Middle East. AUC’s alumni have included diplomats, business leaders, statesmen and stateswomen, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists, media personalities, filmmakers, revolutionaries, and even a queen. In that time, the university has experienced wars, revolutions, attempted nationalization, bombings, and, in recent times, a wholesale move to a new purpose-built campus in the desert. Utilizing a rich array of photographs, documents, and objects, this book presents one hundred short stories about the life and legacy of this unique and remarkable institution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789774168888
Publisher:	American University in Cairo Press, The
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Humphreys's relationship with AUC stretches back to the late 1980s when he was often to be found behind a newspaper around the Fountain Court on the Tahrir Campus. He collaborated with AUC professor John Rodenbeck on the series of SPARE maps of Islamic Cairo. In 1996, he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Cairo Times. He is the author of National Geographic Traveler Egypt (AUC Press, 2009), Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2012), and On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (AUC Press, 2015).

Gadi Farfour was born and raised in Alexandria. She studied print design at the London College of Printing, and has subsequently worked as a magazine and book designer for Lonely Planet, Virgin Books, the Time Out Group, and Dorling Kindersley. For AUC Press she has designed Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel (2012), On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (2015), and Classic Egyptian Movies (2018).