Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt,from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952,and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser,under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978,Sadat and Menachem Begin,Prime Minister of Israel,signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter,for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
The American University in Cairo is a private research university in Cairo,Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs at undergraduate,graduate,and professional levels,along with a continuing education program.
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist,Egyptologist,and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894,he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university,where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor,and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
The United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA) was an American Presbyterian denomination that existed for one hundred years. It was formed on May 26,1858 by the union of the Northern branch of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with the Associate Presbyterian Church (Seceders) at a convention at the Old City Hall in Pittsburgh. On May 28,1958,it merged with the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) at a conference in Pittsburgh to form the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA).
John Waterbury is an American academic and former president of the American University of Beirut.
The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. At issue were foundational disputes about the role of Christianity;the authority of the Bible;and the death,resurrection,and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Two broad factions within Protestantism emerged:fundamentalists,who insisted upon the timeless validity of each doctrine of Christian orthodoxy;and modernists,who advocated a conscious adaptation of the Christian faith in response to the new scientific discoveries and moral pressures of the age. At first,the schism was limited to Reformed churches and centered around the Princeton Theological Seminary which had fundamentalist faculty members found Westminster Theological Seminary when Princeton went in a liberal direction. However,it soon spread,affecting nearly every Protestant denomination in the United States. Denominations that were not initially affected,such as the Lutheran churches,eventually were embroiled in the controversy,leading to a schism in the United States.
Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and professor of Middle East history at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as director of Middle East studies and professor of history at the American University in Cairo.
Robert Francis Goheen was an American academic,president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India.
Henry Habib Ayrout,S.J. was an author,educator,and Jesuit priest in Egypt.
Khairy Pasha Palace is a neo-Mameluk building and former palace of Khairy Pasha,located on 113 Qasr El Eyni Street,in Tahrir Square,Cairo. It served as the American University in Cairo's Tahrir Square campus since 1920 until 2008 when the new campus was inaugurated in New Cairo. The building in the photograph on the right was originally the Girls' School of the Greek Community of Cairo. In 1964 it was sold to the AUC and served as the Greek Campus.
John A. Mackay was a Presbyterian theologian,missionary,and educator. He was a strong advocate of the Ecumenical Movement and World Christianity.
Otto Friedrich August Meinardus was a German Coptologist and pastor who wrote numerous books and articles about Coptic Christianity in Egypt.
William Cowper Alexander was an American lawyer,politician,and insurance executive. He served as President of the New Jersey State Senate and as President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
The American University in Cairo Press is the leading English-language publisher in the Middle East.
The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a scholarly institution dedicated to supporting the conservation of Egyptian antiquities and research in all periods of Egyptian history and a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
The American Mission in Egypt is the name often given to the operations of the United Presbyterian Church of North America that began in Cairo in 1854. Americans journeyed to Egypt with the hope of converting Coptic Christians in Egypt to Protestantism.
In a predominantly Muslim society,as many as 90% of women in Egypt have adopted a form of veiling. A majority of Egyptian women cover at least their hair with the hijab. A hijab refers to a head covering that is worn by Muslim women. Although the phenomenon of wearing the niqāb,a veil which covers the face is not as common,the niqab in Egypt has become more prevalent. While a few women in Egypt wear a black niqab along with a billowing black abaya as seen in countries such as Saudi Arabia,many choose to wear different colors of the niqab or manipulate the hijab to cover their face. Regardless,the growing trend of munaqqabat,or women who wear the niqab,has alarmed the authorities. They have begun to see this dress as a security threat,because it hides the face,and because it is perceived as a political statement,a rejection of the state in favor of a strict Islamic system.
The University on the Square:Documenting Egypt's 21st Century Revolution is a documentation project by the American University in Cairo (AUC) to collect web content,videos,photographs,personal accounts,oral histories and memorabilia related to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. The project's objective is to increase public awareness of the Egyptian Revolution and preserve the events of January 25. The memorabilia,oral history,photograph,and video collections are composed of AUC community submitted media that are attributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Students and faculty may also record testimonials and share their experiences in the revolution. The University on the Square:Documenting Egypt's 21st Century Revolution project is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
AUC Libraries and Learning Technologies(LLT) is a school of the American University in Cairo. It is located on the University’s New Campus,in New Cairo,Egypt.
Heather J. Sharkey is an American historian of the Middle East and Africa,and of the modern Christian and Islamic worlds. Her books and articles have covered topics relating to nationalism,imperialism,colonialism,postcolonial studies,missionary movements,religious communities,and language politics,especially in Egypt and Sudan. She is currently Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
