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The new University of Cairo

By Ben Morales-Correa

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,... »



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