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Egypt’s child domestic workers
Image by LancerenoK via Flickr A study on child domestic workers in Egypt, compiled by the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) of the American University in Cairo (AUC), reveals that tens of thousands of Egyptian children are working without supervision or legal protection. The majority of the children are girls, aged between 9 and... »
Susan Howe Weeks Memorial Fund
To honor Susan Weeks’s memory and work on ancient Egyptian art, Egyptian and Bedouin folk arts and crafts, ethnoarchaeology, ancient and modern ceramic studies, natural history, and techniques of scientific illustration, her family, friends and colleagues have established the Susan Howe Weeks Memorial Fund at the American University in Cairo. The fund will be used... »
Egypt orders foreign schools closed over swine flu
Image by khowaga1 via Flickr Egypt has ordered foreign schools and universities to close until October 3 over worries about swine flu, with local schools having already been told to delay opening until then, a health ministry official said on Wednesday. Egyptian universities and schools had been set to begin their academic year the last week... »
The new University of Cairo
The American University in Cairo (AUC) is at last fully operational, having realized a 15-year-old aim of moving its campus from an 8-acre plot in the heart of traffic-clogged downtown Cairo to a 260-acre site on a desert plain outside the city. The university bought land to the east of Cairo in 1997. By 1999,... »
