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Leadership for Government Excellence Programme Receives Prestigious Award
Hosted in collaboration with AUC’s School of Business and School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Leadership for Government Excellence Programme (LEP) was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Practice Award – Silver Award from the European Foundation for Management Development.
Dean Noha El-Mikawy chats with Anthony Bebbington
Noha El-Mikawy, dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, chats with Ford Foundation International Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change and Higgins Professor of Environment and Society in the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA Anthony Bebbington.
Professor Shahjahan Bhuiyan Receives Prestigious Award for Public Policy Research in Global South
Shahjahan Bhuiyan, associate professor in AUC's Department of Public Policy and Administration and associate dean for Administration and Undergraduate Studies, has received the Transition and Developing Economies Award from the International Public Policy Association
Ramadan from the Heart of Cairo
International student Sara Carere has never experienced a month quite like Ramadan in Egypt.
Saudi-Iran Agreement Brokered by China: Regional Implications
Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties earlier this month in a negotiation mediated by China.
AUC Faculty Develop New Courses on Climate Change, Sustainability During 2023 Research and Creativity Convention
Two courses aimed at informing and empowering AUC students to lead the charge against climate change won this year’s Core Curriculum Course Competition during AUC’s 2023 Research and Creativity Convention (RCC).
Graduate Students Receive International Recognition for Documentary Films
Three graduate students from the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism were recently recognized internationally for their documentary films by the Broadcast Education
Movement for governance in MENA Region
Noha El-Mikawy, dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, chats with Asli Bali, president-elect of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Bali has been a professor of law at Yale University since July 2022, a former professor of law at UCLA School of Law, the founding director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA, and the former director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
CMRS Hosts the 'High-Level General Forum Meeting' the concluding event of EHUB's 1st phase
CMRS hosted the “High-Level General Forum Meeting” as the concluding event of the first phase of the Egyptian Migration Hub (EHUB) project in Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Campus.
EHUB sectoral Meetings Host Stakeholders for a wider discussion on Migration issues.
Under the framework of the EHUB project, CMRS hosted four sectoral meetings between August and December 2022. Each meeting revolved around a specific topic derived from the main themes discussed in the project’s official launch in June 2022. Topics Discussed were Migration Data, Protection of Smuggled Migrants and Victims of Trafficking in Egypt, Skills Matching of Egyptian Migrant Workers in the International Labor Market, and Examining the Socio-economic Conditions of Migrants and Refugees in Egypt: Policies, Partnerships, and Practices.
Forecasting the Middle East for 2023
"The trajectory of rising discontent driven by economic pressures is the other critical development to watch. Whether such discontent leads to a renewed wave of Arab-spring-like movements against incumbent regimes, or remains as isolated cases of protest is difficult to predict, however." Karim Haggag, professor of practice and director of Middle East Studies shares his views on forcasting the middle east for 2023.
EHUB Organizes Media Training on Migration issues
CMRS, in the framework of the EHUB, recently organized a five days training program at AUC Tahrir Campus in December directed towards media personnel. The training was designed to provide an opportunity for professionals in media and communications to gain knowledge about the field of migration, covering a wide range of topics, including an introduction to migration terminologies, policy frameworks and key players, Egyptian Migration: Volumes and Destinations, Migration Governance Frameworks as well as Introduction to Refugee Law.
Business as Usual? The Past, Present and Future of Biden's Middle East Policy
As the U.S. midterm elections passed this November it remains clear that the U.S. public is deeply divided by partisan lines.
Gender and Climate: The Importance of Intersectionality
As climate change continues to degrade the environment, disrupt people’s livelihoods and threaten social stability, it has become increasingly important to analyze its impacts and solutions through an intersectional lens.
Decolonization of Knowledge
Noha El-Mikawy, Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, chats with Alasdair Roberts, inaugural director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as Jocelyne Bourgon, visiting scholar at the Canada School of Public Service on the Decolonization of Knowledge Production.