School of Global Affairs and Public Policy News

AUC witnesses the graduation of two cohorts of the Digital Media Diploma

AUC witnesses the graduation of two cohorts of the Digital Media Diploma (DMD).

Meet Our New Faculty

A warm welcome to all our new faculty! With research interests from international policy to visual storytelling, we are thrilled to have incoming faculty this fall who are experts in a range of disciplines.

Shahjahan Bhuiyan has been appointed as a Commissioner of NASPAA

Shahjahan Bhuiyan, professor at the Department of Public Policy and Administration and GAPP's associate dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration, has been appointed as a Commissioner of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration's (NASPAA)

A Country of Defiance; Mapping the Casamance in Senegal. New Book by Mark W. Deets

A historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal.

CASAR students Academic Trip to Banati Foundation (NGO for homeless girls)

Yasmeen El-Ghazaly, Adjunct Professor escorted undergraduate class taking a course under the Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies & Research (CASAR) at the School of GAPP to the Banati Foundation - a shelter and rehabilitation facility for mainly girls with no homes.

CASAR Students Academic field trip to Asmarat Women’s Shelter and Counseling Center

An academic field trip to Asmarat Women’s Shelter and Counseling Center for the AMST 1099 undergraduate students at the Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR).

'Say More with Threads': What's Next?

Threads, Meta’s newest addition to the social media platform, has received both praise and criticism since its launch a few weeks ago.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS highlighted GAPP's quarterly journal The Cairo Review of Global Affairs he quotes the Cairo Review of Global Affairs essay by Albadr Alshateri

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.

Graduate Student Research Wins Awards at International Conference

Whether studying mental health or disaster relief campaigns, understanding social media is key to navigating our modern world.

Cooperation between GAPP and the Institute for Diplomatic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt

As part of the ongoing cooperation between the Institute for Diplomatic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt and the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Institute held a summer workshop program for a group of 38 AUC students from June 11-13, 2023. 

Dean Noha El-Mikawy chats with Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington, 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

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