School of Global Affairs and Public Policy News

May 29, 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.

May 10, 2023

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

Three photos of Carere placed in a line. Carere sits at a table in the street with Egyptian food in front of her, sharing suhoor with her neighbors. Carere smiles and poses with a peace-sign in front of a shop selling lanterns in downtown Cairo. Carere smiles and stands next to a mascot of a Ramadan character near Talaat Harb, holding fresh strawberry juice.

April 3, 2023

Ramadan from the Heart of Cairo

International student Sara Carere has never experienced a month quite like Ramadan in Egypt.

Three flags cut diagonally across the image, the Iranian flag in the top right corner, the Chinese flag through the middle, and the Saudi Arabian flag in the bottom left hand corner. Each flag is separated by a black bar.

March 20, 2023

Saudi-Iran Agreement Brokered by China: Regional Implications

Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties

flower growing out of concrete and a cityscape of old Cairo near the citadel with new course titles: Sustainability in the Cracks of Urban Policy: Communities, Bureaucracies and Adaptation and Climate Change: From Interdisciplinarity to Action

March 15, 2023

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 (

Screenshots from three documentary films on youtube. The top screenshot is a shot of branches of a date tree from beneath with the words "Quorsaya People" in Arabic and English. The middle photo is a screenshot of a video showing a shot of the nile from a small boat with a small island in the distance, with the words "Nile Inhabitants" in Arabic and English. The bottom image is a screenshot of a video of date trees from far away with the text "Golden Fingers" in Arabic in English, all with video play button

March 12, 2023

Graduate Students Receive International Recognition for Documentary Films

Three graduate students from the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism

February 12, 2023

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).

EHUB sectorial meeting at oriental hall 2023

February 8, 2023

CMRS Hosts High-Level General Forum Meeting in EHUB's First Phase Event

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 Square.

February 1, 2023

EHUB Sectoral Meetings Host Stakeholders for Discussion on Migration issues

Under the framework of the EHUB project, CMRS hosted four sectoral meetings between August and December 2022.

January 30, 2023

Forecasting the Middle East for 2023

"The trajectory of rising discontent driven by economic pressures is the other critical development to watch.

January 24, 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.

Map of Middle East with Republican and Democrat symbols

January 4, 2023

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.

December 20, 2022

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.

November 24, 2022

Finance for Climate Action

Noha El-Mikawy, dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, chats with Vera Songwe, a nonresident senior fellow at Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, and former under-secretary general at the United Nations (UN) and executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa on the Finance for Climate Action report how emerging market economies can fill the fiscal constraints and the impact of Climate Change.

December 19, 2022

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.