Entries from December 2008

December 15, 2008

Student files discrimination case against professor with SJB

By Sarah Abdel Rahman
A student at The American University in Cairo filed a case with the Student Judicial Board against a professor in the Performing and Visual Arts department accusing him of discriminating against her.
The student, Ingy Mahmoud, said the professor prevented her from taking the winter Art and Architecture course because she was “not [...]

December 4, 2008

Lebanese pop-stars to entertain at Saturday’s concert

By Safaa Ali
Lebanese pop-singer Ramy Ayash, D.J Carlos, and performer-singer Nicole Saba are going to entertain and sing in the Fall Concert, which will be held by the AUC Student Union this Saturday.
The S.U. organizes and end of semester concert as part of it’s mission statement. “But this year every body wants to celebrate moving to New Campus,” [...]

December 3, 2008

Barack Obama brings a new era in US politics, AUC professor says

By Safaa Ali
With Barack Obama’s election a new era in American politics is about to unfold, but he may be just a one-term president, said Patrick Mason, assistant professor of history at The American University in Cairo.
The next four years will be a chance to forge a real peace process between nations, Mason told an [...]

December 1, 2008

To our loyal readers, a public service announcement

Dear Caravan readers,
If you picked up a copy of the Caravan this week, we hope you understood, it was all a joke. Following the tradition of all college newspapers, this was an end-of-the-semester parody issue.
Why? First, it was an exercise in satire, something that isn’t done much in this part of the world. Maybe if [...]