PRINCE ALWALEED AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS September 2006 through June 2011

OUR MISSION

The mission of the center is to improve understanding between America and the Arab World. It will seek to be a central place for discussion of issues involving the US, , the , and the world. It will run an active public outreach program including student trips, media programs, public conferences, and symposia with Egyptian universities. On campus, it will also provide courses, lectures, documentaries, mentoring, hosting of Fulbright Scholars, and partnering with Egyptian and int’l organizations. It will also be active in publishing its results.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS OUTREACH • Reached more than one million people in Egypt and the Middle East with its programs. • Made 42 appearances on American, Egyptian, and Saudi television. • Ran nine student conferences and three conferences for the Egyptian public. • Led 30 AUC students and faculty members on three field trips to Washington, DC. • Implemented a year-long exchange program between AUC and Rice University. • Organized or participated in six press conferences. • Trained 38 Egyptian journalists on the 2008 American elections. • Gave 19 public talks in Egypt, the US, Britain, Albania, and Lebanon. • Presented 48 documentaries with discussions for 1,200 people. • Helped to get global warming onto the AUC agenda and the public agenda in Egypt. • Worked cross-culturally with 16 Egyptian national universities. • Organized five videoconferences with US and Middle Eastern universities. • Took field trips to US Embassy, USAID, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Arab League, museums. • Worked with five Alwaleed centers, six universities, eight NGOs, five media organizations.

CAMPUS PROGRAMS • Hosted 47 speakers in the American Issues Speakers Series. • Taught of 490 AUC students over five years. • Started three new core curriculum courses. • Helped six student assistants win study abroad places in the US, Japan, and Italy. • Mentored 24 AUC students. • Helped to expand the number of USA-related courses at AUC. • Hosted five Fulbright Scholars at the center. • Organized a Fulbright Speakers Series. • Moved the center into the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

PUBLICATIONS • A student-authored report How We See the Revolution. • Seeing Ourselves as Other See Us based on the AUC-Rice exchange. • Is the Arab World Going Democratic? based on an interuniversity conference. • The series US-Arab Issues. Three issues in print. • Course books for What is America? and Big Global Issues We All Face. • Book project start-up: The New Egypt: the Society Emerging from the Egyptian Revolution.

OUTREACH

Objective 1: Organize Student Conferences on Cross-Cultural Themes.

The center has sponsored nine student meetings and conferences in the last four years:

• Is the Arab World Going Democratic? AUC, , BUE, Menoufiya students. Apr 2011 • Cairo Colloquium on US-Middle East Issues with Rice students June 2010 and Jan. 2011. • After Obama’s Cairo Speech, What Next? with students from Fordham University, Columbia University, and the Doha campuses of Northwestern and Georgetown. • Islamophobia in America and Anti-Americanism in Egypt with Cairo Law Faculty 2009. • Mock Presidential Elections in November 2008. • US Elections Quiz Bowl with US Embassy in October 2008. • Beyond Borders: Big Issues between the US and the Middle East with the American NGO Project on Middle East Democracy in March 2008. • Bringing the World Together: US-Egyptian Dialogue on Foreign Policy in 2007. • Youth Dialogue on American Foreign Policy with the Model Egyptian Parliament 2006.

Objective 2: Engage Actively with the Egyptian and Middle Eastern Media.

• US-Egyptian Relations Today on Nile TV’s Daily Debate (Leach) • Will the Revolution in Syria Succeed? on Nile TV’s Daily Debate (Leach) • Stability of Iraq? On Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • No-Fly Zone for Libya? on Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • Causes of the Egyptian Uprising on CBS Evening News (Leach) • Anti-Americanism in Egypt on CBS Evening News (Leach) • Youth Unemployment in Egypt on CBS Morning News (Leach) • Government Repression in Egypt on CBS Morning News (Leach) • What Way Forward for Gaza? on Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • The War in Afghanistan on Nile TV’s Daily Debate (Leach) • What is Obama’s Asian Tour All About? on Nile TV’s Daily Debate (Leach) • The American Mid-term Elections on Nile TV’s World Today (Leach) • US Arms Sales to on Nile TV’s Daily Debate (Leach) • Is Progress Possible Now on the Israel-Palestine Conflict? on Saudi TV Political Agenda (Leach) • Why is There Political Turmoil in Thailand on Saudi TV Political Agenda (Leach) • Iran and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • What Do We Need to Know about Global Warming? on Planet TV (Leach) • How Do You See Egypt? on Nile TV’s Our Egypt (Leach) • What American Studies Is All About in Egypt on Nile TV’s Our Egypt (Leach) • Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban on Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach)

2 • Choosing an Unusual Cross-cultural Career on Nile TV’s Our Egypt (Leach) • Islam’s Image in the West on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • Iran, the Middle East, and the West on Nile TV’s Frontline (Griffiths) • Obama’s First Year on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • Defense Department’s Role in Global Warming on NBC News (Leach) • Global Warming’s Impact on Egypt on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • The Iranian Elections on Saudi Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • The Uighur-Chinese Conflict in China on Saudi Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • US, Iran, and Obama Administration on Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • International Criminal Court and President Omar al Bashir on Saudi TV Channel 2 (Leach) • The Middle East Peace Process on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • The Obama Administration on Nile TV’s Frontline (Mason) • US Policy towards Africa on Nile TV's Africa This Week (Mason) • Will There Be a New Cold War? on Nile TV’s Frontline (Leach) • The Current Economic Crisis on Nile TV’s Frontline (Galbraith) • The US Elections 2008 on Saudi TV Channel 2 Political Agenda (Leach) • The Middle East Peace Process on Nile TV’s Frontline (Pastor) • The Status of Forces Agreement between the US and Iraq on Saudi TV Channel 2 (Leach) • The US Elections 2008 on Brookings Doha - Washington Closed-Circuit TV (Leach) • The Primaries and the Elections on US Embassy TV for Egyptian press (Leach) • Coverage of 2008 elections conference by Egyptian TV Channel 1, Al Arabiya, Dream TV, Al Hurra, Oman TV, Orbit, Nile News, Egyptian TV News, OTV, Al Jazeera, and Al Hayah

Radio interviews included:

• Dr. Jerry W. Leach on BBC Radio 4 “Today” show in May 2011 • Prof. James K. Galbraith on “Stars on Egyptian Land” in May 2009 • Dr. John Duke Anthony on “Stars on Egyptian Land” in March 2008

Newspaper interviews and articles:

• Dr. Leach on US universities and Egyptian protests for The Chronicle of Higher Education • Dr. Leach on global warming with Al Ahram Weekly • Dr. Leach on 2008 elections for Rose AlYoussef • Dr. John Duke Anthony on US-Arab Relations with Rose AlYoussef and Al Masry Al Youm • Prof. James K. Galbraith on recession for Rose AlYoussef, Ahram Weekly, Al Alam Al Youm • Coverage of the 2008 Elections conference by Al Ahram Weekly, Al Dostur, Sayedaty, Nahdet Masr, Al Youm Al Sabie, Al Masry Al Youm, Al Ahram Al Masaie, Watani, Al Ahrar, Al Ahrar, MENA, Al Akhbar, Rose AlYoussef, Al Mal, Wa Al Akar, Al Badeel, Bashyar, Egypt Today, Al Shabab. The Daily News and Reuters, Associated Press.

Conferences participated in:

• Trash and Recycling in Egypt for LEAD conference in 2010 (Leach) • Symposium on the Nile for Sawy Culture Wheel in 2009 (Leach) • World Innovation Summit for Education in November (Leach) • Africa-Middle Summit on Renewable Energy in 2009 (Leach) • Egyptian Business Summit on Global Climate Change in 2009 (Leach) • The Threat to the Nile Delta from Global Warming for UNEP’s Youth Summit on Global Climate Change in March 2009 (Leach) • American Foreign Policy in the Middle East for Cairo U. Law Faculty 2009 (Leach).

3 • American Studies Association in Washington, D.C. 2008. • What Good Is Cross-Cultural Dialogue? US-Egypt Beyond Borders Conference 2007 (Leach). • Free Speech: Getting It and Keeping It for AISEC International Conference in 2007 (Leach).

Workshops organized:

• Dr. Leach gave a 12-hour workshop on The US Elections 2008 to 19 Egyptian journalists who were covering the elections. He then gave them a 4-hour seminar in Washington at the National Press Foundation. Co-sponsored with Adham Center for Electronic Journalism.

Press conferences given or participated in:

• Dr. Leach and Alwaleed Center Leaders on West and Islamic World. World press. • Dr. Leach on Global Warming and the Nile Delta. Cairo newspapers. • Dr. Leach on the 2008 US Presidential Elections. Cairo TV channels. • Dr. James K. Galbraith on the Great Recession of 2008-09. Cairo TV channels and newspapers. • Dr. John Duke Anthony on US-Arab Relations. Cairo newspapers. • Dr. Robert Pastor on Democracy and Islam. Cairo newspapers.

Objective 3: Run American Issues Speakers Series on Campus and for the Public.

Academic Year 2010-11

• Mr. Michael Wadleigh on The Future of Humanity • Dr. Jerry Leach on The November 2010 Congressional Elections

Academic Year 2009-10

• Sir Eldon Griffiths on Iran, the Middle East, and the West • Dr. Ahmet Uysal on Islam and Politics in Turkey • Dr. Bruce Lohof on Overview of the Fulbright Program • Dr. Zohair Husain on The Major Causes and Consequences of the Cold War • Dr. Catherine Harbour on Take it Outside: Household Smoking Restrictions • Dr. Michael McMullen on The American Baha'i Community • Dr. Scott Hibbard on The Influence of Religion on American Politics • Dr. Amritjit Singh on Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance • Dr. Karl Lorenz on Native American Mound Builder Societies in America • Dr. Samer Ali on Studies in America: Old Roots, New Branches • Dr. Sussan Babaie, Visual Arts in Contemporary Diaspora: Problems of Islamic Art • Ms. Nevine Gad El-Mawla on How to Become an Egyptian Fulbright Scholar

Academic Year 2008-09

• Prof. James K. Galbraith on The Growing Divide between Rich and Poor Worldwide • Prof. Galbraith on The World Recession: Causes, Consequences, Cures • Prof. Galbraith on The Predator State and the Free Market • Prof. Galbraith on The Growing Divide between Rich and Poor Worldwide • Prof. Galbraith on The Causes of the Current Financial Crisis • Dr. Patrick Mason on Religious Illiteracy in America • Prof. Marie Lathers on Aliens, Arabs, and Women • Ms. Ana Menendez on The Future of Narrative in the Age of the Internet

4 • Prof. George Dowdall on Drinking by College Students: Understanding a Social Problem • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on Who Was the Worst President in American History? • Dr. Patrick Mason on The Obama Election and the Middle East • Dr. Patrick Mason on Interpreting the US Election Results • Mr. Wael Fakharany on Google’s Role in the US Elections • Dr. Patrick Mason, Dr. William Vocke, and Mr. Suleiman Din on The US Elections 2008 • Dr. William Vocke on Ethics in International Relations • Dr. S. Everhart, S. Herrera, Alex Severens, Medhat Hassanein on The World Financial Crisis

Academic Year 2007-08

• Mr. James Zogby on Arabs in America • Dr. John Duke Anthony on Where Are US-Arab Relations Going? • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on Are World Oil Supplies Giving Out? • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on The Role of Primaries in Electing a US President • Prof. Stefan A. Halper on US Foreign Policy after Bush • Prof. Robert Pastor on Why Free and Fair Elections Really Matter • Mr. Charles Lewis on How Democracies Deal with Corruption • Dr. Marina Ottaway on Obstacles on the Road to Democracy • Dr. Fares Braizat on What Muslims Think about Democracy • Dr. Abdel Moneim aboul Fotouh on Where the Muslim Brothers Stand on Democracy

Academic Year 2006-07

• Gov. Michael Dukakis on Public Service for the Public Good • Prof. William Quandt on Bush’s Moment in the Middle East • Mr. Steve Franklin (Chicago Tribune) on What is Happening to American Newspapers? • Prof. Donald Pease on Whither the New Americanists? • Prof. Brantley Womack on Democracies and Small Wars: Lessons from Iraq • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on Bush, Congress, and Iraq • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on Are the Neoconservatives Finished? • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on The Struggle for Freedom of Speech • Prof. Jerry W. Leach on The History of US Democracy Promotion

The center has hosted the following Distinguished Visiting Professors to date:\

• Prof. James K. Galbraith of the U. of Texas and the LBJ School of Public Affairs 2009 • Dr. John Duke Anthony, President of the National Council of US-Arab Relations 2008 • Prof. Donald Pease of Dartmouth College 2006.

Objective 4: Host Public Conferences on US-Arab Themes.

The center has hosted three major conference open to the public with special invitations to and participation from 16 Egyptian national universities:

• The U.S. Elections 2008 • Are Islam and Democracy Compatible? co-sponsored with American University in 2006 • Dissent in America in 2006

5 Objective 5: Host Documentary-Discussion Series for the Campus and the Public on Major Issues that the US, Egypt, and the World Face.

Academic Year 2010-11

• The Future of Humanity and the Future of Egypt with the Homo Sapiens Foundation • Years of Lightning, Day of Drums on the presidency of John F. Kennedy • United 93 on the 9/11 hijacking of a plane • Day after Disaster about continuity of government after a nuclear attack on Washington • George Washington about his life and his accomplishments • Abraham Lincoln about his life and his accomplishments • Franklin D. Roosevelt about his life and his accomplishments • An Inconvenient Truth about global warming • Powering the Future about renewable energies • A Crude Awakening: the Coming Oil Crash about the end of the Age of Oil • Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun about the solar power industry today • Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty about microenterprise • Barack Obama about his career up to the 2008 election • Guns in America about the gun control issue • Prince among Slaves about 19th century American slavery • The Eleventh Hour about the urgent need to move to a sustainable way of life • Let Freedom Sing: Music of the Civil Rights Movement about the soul of the movement • Green: the New Red, White and Blue about the US environmental movement • Soldiers in the Army of God about radical American anti-abortionists.

Fate of Our Earth. Spring 2010 series for the campus and the general public co-sponsored with the Wadi Environmental Science Center.

• A Crude Awakening: the Coming Oil Crash. Discussant: Dr. Jerry W. Leach • The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project. Discussant: Dr. Hassan abou Bakr. • Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun. Discussant: Dr. Amr Farouk of SEDEK • Death on the Nile and Connecting Delta Cities. Discussant: Dr. Marwan Shahien • Earth Report 2009. Discussant: Dr. Hala Barakat of the Alexandria Library.

Academic Year 2009-10

• Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains about his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. • The American Civil War • A Crude Awakening: the Coming Oil Crash • Guns in America • Washington and its Monuments • Green: the New Red, White and Blue • Energy for a Developed World • Let Freedom Sing: Music of the Civil Rights Movement • The Eleventh Hour • The Human Footprint • The Great Squeeze • Prince among Slaves • Barack Obama • Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response to colonialism. Film made by Jerry W. Leach and Gary Kildea. Special Screening in AUC’s Margaret Mead Film Festival.

6 Academic Year 2008-09

• Six Degrees Could Change Our World • Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun • World in the Balance: the Population Paradox • A Crude Awakening: the Coming Oil Crash • An Inconvenient Truth • The Journey of Man

Academic Year 2007-08

• Saddam’s Confessions • A Crude Awakening: the Coming Oil Crash • SICKO • Super Size Me • Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains • Bowling for Columbine • Soldiers in the Army of God • Capitol Crimes • Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq War • On the Road in America co-sponsored with Layalina TV. Showed 3 of 12 episodes.

Objective 6: Organize Cross-cultural Symposia at Egyptian National Universities.

Dr. Leach put on seven one-day events for more than 1,500 faculty and students at Minoufiya University in the Nile Delta and one AUC-Cairo University event:

• The Egyptian Revolution at Menoufiya University in March 2011 • Islamophobia in America and Anti-Americanism in Egypt in March 2009. Organized with the Cairo Law Faculty and the Cairo Model United Nations. • American Media in October 2008 (with Ana Menendez) • US Presidential Elections 2008 in April 2008 • Marriage and Family in the America and Egypt in November 2007 • Mutual Misconceptions: Arab and American Stereotypes in March 2007 (with Lisa Portmess) • What Do You Want to Know about America? in December 2006 (with Lisa Portmess)

Objective 7: Establish Working Relationships with Organizations in Egypt and Abroad Seeking to Improve US-Arab Relations.

• The center has established the following working relationships to date:

Other Alwaleed Centers Harvard University Georgetown University Edinburgh University Cambridge University American University in

7 Other Universities New York University through the Levin Institute American University in Washington Northwestern University in Menoufiya University Cairo University Rice University Drew University

NGOs Wadi Environmental Science Center National Council for US-Arab Relations Project for Middle East Democracy Steps towards Progress Model Arab League Program Sawy Culture Wheel Green Hands Egyptian Youth Development Association

Media Chronicle of Higher Education Nile TV Saudi TV Channel 2 Rosa el Youssef Newspaper Stars on Egyptian Land Radio Program

Government Fulbright Program in Egypt US Embassy in Cairo State Department in Washington

• Dr. Leach has attended all three meetings of the Alwaleed centers held to date.

• The center hosted a 13-person Harvard Alwaleed delegation for an all-day program on AUC, Egypt, Egypt's educational system, and student life and careers in both countries. Follow-up visit to Harvard planned for January 2011.

• Students and faculty from 16 Egyptian universities have attended two center conferences.

• In the spring semester of 2010, the center co-sponsored with the Wadi Environmental Science Center a film series called Fate of Our Earth.

• It also showed these films on World Environment Day at Al Azhar Park in Cairo.

Speeches for other organizations include:

• Authoritarianism and Democracy at Cairo Inter University Conference (Leach) • Achievements of the Egyptian Revolution for Edinburgh University (Leach) • The Egyptian Revolution for the Loretto School in Scotland (Leach) • The November 2010 Congressional Elections for Democrats Abroad (Leach) • Documentary Films in Education for Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford University (Leach) • Trobriand Cricket for US Senate Staff Members (Leach) • Global Warming and Our Future for Kristal University in Albania (Leach) • Obama’s First Year for Democrats Abroad (Leach)

8 • Are We at the Beginning of the End of the Age of Oil? at Sawy Culture Wheel (Leach) • Global Warming and the Nile for Sawy Culture Wheel (Leach) • Is the Nile Delta Going under Water? PowerPoint lecture for general public (Leach) • Is the Nile Delta Going Under Water? for the Sawy Culture Wheel (Leach) • What Will Be New from the Obama Administration? Cairo U. Politics and Economics (Leach) • Islamophobia in America for Cairo University Law Faculty (Leach) • Interpreting the 2008 American Elections for US Embassy (Mason)

Objective 8: Take AUC Students on Field Trips in Egypt and to the USA.

• Six student assistants of the American Studies Center went on a two-week public policy field trip to Rice University in Houston and Washington, D.C. in January 2011. The Houston component was part of our on-going exchange with the Baker Institute of Rice University. • A booklet on the year-long exchange program entitled Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: AUC-Rice Cross-Cultural Explorations was published in April 2011.

• Six student assistants visited the Washington, D.C. during the last week of January. A booklet entitled The A-Team in Washington was put out for the students in April 2011.

• In Nov. 2010, the center’s ten student assistants went to the Arab League to meet the Chef de Cabinet Amb. Hisham Youssef and to discuss with him issues facing the Arab world.

• The center took 15 AUC American and Egyptian students to the Suez Canal for briefings on the history, operations, and financing of the canal in November 2010.

• In June 2007, 11 students and 3 faculty members went to Washington, D.C. for 18 days. Dr. Leach gave 14 lectures on US themes. He also organized 42 appointments, 5 site visits, two home visits, and a one-day trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield and Gettysburg College.

• A second trip for eight students and two faculty members was to New York, Washington, and North Carolina in January 2008. Dr. Leach led the Washington portion, giving five lectures and organizing 13 appointments, five site visits, and a home visit.

Objective 9: Join the Cambridge Alwaleed Center in its Al Azhar Initiative.

• The AUC center will host the delegations of religious figures from Britain and Afghanistan and will provide a portion of their curriculum.

• The planning for this was done when Alwaleed Professor from Cambridge Yasir Suleiman visited the campus in May 2010.

Objective 10: Get AUC Team into the US Solar Decathlon Competition.

• The center is joining with the Engineering Department to get AUC to enter a student team in the 2011 US Solar Competition run by the US Department of Energy and the 2012 Solar Competition in Europe. The goal is to build a functional, livable solar house. University teams from all over the world will compete.

9 • A team of 35 students, plus a faculty advisory group of 5, has been formed. Our center sent a student to Washington in October 2009 to view the finals of the 2009 competition as a springboard for AUC’s application the next month.

• The first round application in November 2009 was successful. Putting the AUC team into the semi-final round. The AUC team did not, however, advance to the US final.

• The AUC team did, however, advance to the European finals which will take place in Madrid in 2012. There will be 20 finalists in that competition.

CAMPUS PROGRAMS

Objective 11: Offer Three New Core Curriculum Courses.

• The new lower-level core course - What is America? - given five times between the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2010. • The higher-level core course - What is Globalization? - given in the spring of 2009.

• The higher-level core course - Big Global Issues We All Face – given in fall 2009 and spring 2010.

• The center director has been nominated for the AUC Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008-09, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011 but did not win.

Objective 12: Host Fulbright Fellows at AUC Each Year.

• The center has hosted five Fulbright Fellows to date:

Dr. Carla Daughtry of Lawrence University. Anthropology. Dr. Michael McMullen of the University of Houston. Sociology. Ms. Ana Menendez of the Miami Herald. Journalism and Creative Writing. Dr. Lisa Portmess of Gettysburg College. Philosophy and American Studies. Dr. Susan Kollin of Montana State College. American Literature.

• The center organized a series on the Fulbright program in 2010. The 2011 series was cancelled due to evacuation of the Fulbright Scholars during the Egyptian Revolution. The Fulbright Staff and Scholars who participated in 2010 were:

Dr. Bruce Lohof on The Fulbright Program Dr. Zohair Husain on The Causes and Consequences of the Cold War Dr. Catherine Harbour on Household Smoking Restrictions Dr. Michael McMullen on The American Baha’i Community Dr. Scott Hibbard on The Influence of Religion on American Politics Dr. Amritjit Singh on The Harlem Renaissance Dr. Karl Lorenz on Native American Mound Builder Societies Dr. Sussan Babaie on The Contemporary Diaspora: Problems of Islamic Art Ms. Nevine Gad El-Mawla on How Egyptians Can Get a Fulbright Scholarship

10 Objective 13: Expand the USA-related Courses Offered by the Center and AUC.

The center and its affiliated staff have taught the following courses since September 2006:

• AMST299: Big Global Issues We All Face (Leach: five times) • AMST299: What is Globalization? (Leach) • ANTH332: Race, Ethnicity, and Class (Daughtry) • ANTH512: Anthropology and Colonialism (Daughtry) • SEMR199: What is America? (Leach: four times) • SOC101: Introduction to Sociology (McMullen) • SOC435: Gender and Power in Development (McMullen) • HIST201: History of Modern American Civilization to the 19th Century (Mason) • HIST202: History of Modern American Civilization: 19th Century to Present (Mason) • HIST401: American Civil Rights Movement (Mason) • HIST401: Comparative Global Fundamentalisms (Mason) • JRMC490: Writing about America (Menendez) • JRMC201: Mass Media (Menendez) • ECLT209: Introduction to American Studies (Portmess, Kollin, Dworkin) • ECLT310: Nineteenth Century American Literature (Kollin, Dworkin) • ECLT311: Modern American Literature (Kollin)

The university now has some 20 courses that are directly on United States. Seven new courses have been added in the last four years:

• What is America? (new) • US Congress and the Middle East (new) • War on Terrorism (new) • Modern American Religious History (new) • Comparative Global Fundamentalisms (new) • Discovering America: Writing on the Road (new) • Cross-cultural Perceptions (new) • Introduction to American Studies • American Civilization to the 19th Century • Modern American Civilization • American Government and Politics • US Foreign Policy • American Constitutional Law • American Philosophy • Early American Literature • Modern European and American Literature • Modern American Literature • Modern American Poetry • Humor and American Culture • Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations

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Objective 14: Mentor AUC Students.

• The center has mentored 20 students since September 2006. Mentoring has involved several hundred hours, including individual counseling sessions, career orientation, dinners, field trips in Egypt, and study tours to the USA.

• Dr. Leach has mentored 16 students: Aida Yehia, Ramadan Moussa, Ahmed Seddik, Laila al Agily, Mohamed el Gindy, Shuang Wen, Corinne Smith, Sarah Dada, Noah Agily, Nancy el Gindy, Dalia Abbas, Salma Gaber, Ihab el Sokary, Salma al Massery, Dina Salah elDin, Yasminah El Sayed.

• Dr. McMullen has mentored Jayne Lee, Anne Caldwell, Naseem Hashim, and Matt Ellis.

• Dr. Mason mentored Jessica Bliven, Eric Chiang, Shelby Justl, and Jeannine Chin.

• Dr. Leach serves as Faculty Adviser for Green Hands, the Solar Decathlon Team, and the Egyptian Youth Development Association. He is a member of the Sustainable Campus Committee.

• The Cairo University Student Union used Dr. Leach’s career as a case study in its film Steps towards Progress. GLOW used excerpts from a lengthy interview with Dr. Leach on civic engagement, NGO work, and working for political reform.

• Unpaid consultant Dr. Cathryn Goddard presented an AUC session in May 2008 on Preparing Excellent Career-oriented Resumes. She gave one-on-one resume tutoring sessions to 10 AUC students in the summer of 2008. Dr. Goddard also led two AUC sessions on International Career Opportunities with speakers from major Egyptian companies.

• In the fall of 2008, the center co-sponsored with AMIDEAST two campus sessions on Getting into Graduate Schools in America.

PUBLISHING

Objective 15: Publish US-Arab Issues.

• This series consists of short articles on topics that do not find their way into the 50 or so journals that regularly cover the US and the Middle East. The articles will be published on-line and in print.

• Dr. Patrick Mason prepared the first issue on Christian Zionism and its Religious Influence in American Politics. It is now on the center’s website in both English and Arabic. Copies will be distributed to about 500 people.

• Dr. Leach published the second issue on A New Vision for the Future of Nuclear Weapons. It too on the AUC website in English and Arabic. The Arabic version circulated worldwide by Islam Online.

• Dr. Michael McMullen, Fulbright Fellow, wrote the third issue on The Bahais in Egypt.

12 Objective 16: Publish Faculty and Student Articles and Reports.

• Published a 92-page student-authored report How We See the Egyptian Revolution.

• Published a 32-page report on the exchange program with Rice University called Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: AUC-Rice Cross-Cultural Explorations.

• Published a 32-page report inter-university conference which it organized on Is the Arab World Going Democratic? Videos of the five conference sessions are on AUC YouTube site.

• Dr. Leach has put out a bound collection of all his lectures, handouts, documents, and maps for his course What is America?

• Dr. Leach has put out a bound collection of all his course materials for his course Big Global Issues That We All Face.

• The center has prepared a bound publication entitled Achievements 2006-2011, exhibiting with texts and photographs what it did during the five years that Dr. Leach was the director.

• Dr. Leach has started, with four AUC student assistants, a five-year project on the Egyptian Revolution provisionally entitled The New Egypt: the society emerging from the Egyptian Revolution.

• Dr. Leach has started a long-term research project on: The World Environmental Movement: Successes and Failures over the Last 50 Years.

BUILDING THE CENTER’S INFRASTRUCTURE

Objective 17: Building the Budget

• The goal for the center’s budget is $300,000. The 2010-2011 budget was $223,907, which covers everything including salaries, programs, travel, communications, supplies, and equipment for the center. Ten percent of that budget was frozen to cover the running deficit of the university. The 2009-10 budget was $215,973 and the 2008-09 was $226,000. The 2009-2010 cutback was due to university-wide reductions caused by an overall operating deficit.

• In 2008, Dr. Leach created with the AUC development office an overall fundraising plan encompassing eight elements: international conference, endowed chair, bilingual website, USA study tours, cross-cultural symposia around Egypt, VIP lecture series, publication series, and TV program. Approaches to the Prince Alwaleed Foundation and a private donor in London did not bear fruit.

• The center acquired a three-year $300,000 grant from Citigroup Foundation before Dr. Leach’s arrival. He administered the last third of the grant in 2006-07.

• American University contributed $30,000 to the center’s 2007 conference. The Office of Student Development contributed $60,000 to the center’s student field trip program. The student assistants raised $10,000 to cover part of the costs of the Houston-Washington field trip in January 2011.

• In order to deal with the suspicion that the center was a stalking horse for the Bush administration, the center did not approach the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the State Department, and USAID for funds in 2006-08. This self-imposed restriction is now over.

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• The center informally approached USAID in 2010 to see if an endowment could be created to insure the longevity of the center. This proved not to be possible. Having the name of the prince on the center, but no endowment funds to go with the name, has so far created a major impediment in fundraising for an endowment and for an endowed chair.

• The center’s principal staff member Hany Hanna was promoted and received an enhanced title in 2008. Mr. Hanna has attended five training courses on computer use, desktop design, accounting, website updates. His role at the center has been greatly expanded.

• The following 15 graduate and undergraduate students have been active as student assistants:

Aida Yehia Ahmed Ezz el Din Sarah el Massery Ramadan Moussa Dalia Abbas Yasminah el Sayed Laila al Agily Dina Salah Eldin Ihab el Sokary Mohamed el Gindy Salma Gaber Noah Agily Nancy el Guindy Shuang Wen Sean Graham

• Aida Yehia received a place on the AUC study tour to Washington in January 2008. She is now an Assistant Lecturer at the British University in Egypt. Ramadan Moussa received a summer scholarship to Portland State University as a result of his LEAD scholarship and a full scholarship for an MA in Public Policy. Former AUC student Ahmed Seddik has served as the center’s translator, editor, researcher, speaker, and guide. He was the translator and organizer for CBS Evening News, the Financial Times, and the Guardian during the Revolution.

• International management consultant and CEO of Coverdale Associates, Dr. Cathryn Goddard, serves at as an unpaid program advisor to the center.

Objective 18: Build a Network of People Interested in the Center’s Programs.

The on-campus group includes:

• Dr. Jennifer Bremer of Public Policy and Administration • Dr. Robert Switzer of Philosophy • Dr. Daniel Tschirgi of Political Science • Dr. Ira Dworkin of English and Comparative Literature • Dr. Helen Rizzo of Sociology • Mr. Hafez al Mirazi of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism • Dr. Stephen Everhart of Finance • Dr. Jill Edwards of History • Dr. Phyllis Wachob of the English Language Institute

The off-campus group includes:

• US Senator Jeffrey Merkley of Oregon • Mr. Garrick Utley, President of SUNY’s Levin Institute in New York • Mr. David Wheeler, International Editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education • Mr. Andrew Mitchell, Cultural Counselor of the US Embassy • Amb. Robert W. Dean, CEO of Vialogy in California • Sen. Robert Kasten of Kasten Associates in Washington • Prof. Hugh Goddard of the Edinburgh Alwaleed Center • Prof. Yasir Suleiman of the Cambridge Alwaleed Center

14 • Prof. Ali Asani of the Harvard Alwaleed Program • Mr. Clifford Gardner of the Harvard Alwaleed Program • Prof. Roy Mottahedeh of the Harvard Alwaleed Program • Prof. John Esposito of the Georgetown Alwaleed Center • Prof. John Voll of the Georgetown Alwaleed Center • Ms. Francesca Martonffy of the British Council • Dr. Abdel Moneim aboul Fotouh of the Arab Medical Union and the Muslim Brotherhood • Dr. Bruce Lohof, Director of the Bi-National Fulbright Program • Dr. Osama Madany of Menoufiya University • Dr. Abdel Moneim Aly Habib of Menoufiya University • Dr. Cathryn Goddard, CEO of Coverdale Associates • Dr. Stefan Halper of Cambridge University • Ms. Shahira Amin, former Deputy Director of Nile TV • Ms. Nermine Abdel Rahman, Anchor for Nile TV • Amb. Nicholas Veliotes, President of the US-Egypt Friendship Society in Washington • Dr. John Duke Anthony, President of the National Council of US-Arab Relations • Dr. Shafeeq Ghabra, President of Jusoor Arabiya in .

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