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Unlocking Arabic AUC TODAY Fall 2009 Unlocking Arabic AUC alum Justin Majzub pioneers an innovative design for Arabic letters that turns, swivels and clicks into different forms Cutting-Edge Cure • Dorm Doors Open • Instrument of Change FALL09 EMPLOYMENT FAIR Saturday, November 7 • 11 am – 6 pm www.caps.aucegypt.edu/effall2009.html Don’t Miss the Region’s Premier Recruiting Event Explore career opportunities with more than 90 companies and organizations Network with more than 400 corporate professionals Career Advising and Placement Services tel +20.2.2615.3515 • [email protected] www.caps.aucegypt.edu Contents Ahmad El-Nemr Rania Siam, director of the biotechnology graduate program, is reculturing bacteria under sterile conditions in a laminar flow hood Page 20 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 10 UNLOCKING ARABIC 3 AUSCENES Justin Majzub (ALU ’84) has developed the Abjad system, which is widely used in Egypt AUC Trustee Kenneth Bacon dies, and the Middle East, to make learning Arabic simple and fun. Sherif Kamel named dean of the new School of Business, New Cairo 14 DORM DOORS OPEN Campus receives land use award, The New Cairo Campus student residences, which opened in January 2009, offer psychology master’s program begins, students the opportunity to live on campus and enjoy campus life. Elsaid Badawi receives CASA’s Lifetime Contribution Award 18 CARING FOR THE CHILDREN AUC’s daycare center provides a service to faculty and staff members, while nurturing ALUMNI PROFILES young children’s talents. 38 Yervant Terzian ’60 received Armenia’s highest honor for his 20 CUTTING-EDGE CURE achievements in astronomy Students and faculty members in AUC’s biotechnology graduate program are researching ways to combat infectious and viral diseases in Egypt. 35 AROUND THE WORLD Alumni meet in various countries 26 A NAME THAT LASTS Continuing a tradition that began on the Tahrir Square Campus, alumni and friends have 40 AKHER KALAM named spaces on the New Cairo Campus as a way of supporting the university. Shaden Khallaf ’98, ’04 recounts INSIDE AUC how her experience with AUC’s 30 FROM Model United Nations paved Alumni of different generations recount their most memorable experience at AUC as the way for her work at the real part of the contest that ran in Inside AUC, the monthly alumni e-newsletter. United Nations 32 INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE John Baboukis, assistant professor of performing and visual arts, has revitalized the university’s music program. On the cover: Justin Majzub (ALU ’84) has developed an integrated system for teaching Arabic, photographed by Ahmad El-Nemr Editor’s Notes AUC TODAY Fall 2009 Patience and Perseverance Volume 18, No. 1 “If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.”This quote from the Back to the Future movie is very true. If people try hard enough The American University in Cairo is a to accomplish something and persist at it with diligence and patience, it nonprofit private institution devoted to will pay off in the long run. In this issue, we examine two such examples providing English-language liberal arts education to serve Egypt and the from the AUC community. Middle East. “Cutting-Edge Cure” (page 20) highlights how graduate students and faculty members in AUC’s biotechnology program are researching Editor in Chief treatment options for infections as well as viral and genetic diseases, Dalia Al Nimr including influenza, cancer and hepatitis C.While research has been Designer carried out on these diseases in many parts of the world, the notable Hanan Omary aspect about the work done at AUC is that it is focused on strains of the diseases found in Egypt. Current vaccines come from the United States Writers Jeffrey Bellis, Sarah Topol and Peter Wieben and Europe, but the vaccines should be different in Egypt because the virus strains may be different.AUC researchers are working to combat the Advisory Board right strains and identify new ones to increase the effectiveness of the Galal Zaki ’68; Magda Hayek ’72, ’76, ’94; treatment. It may take years to achieve the desired results, but it makes me Adel El-Labban ’77, ’80; Hanzada Fikry ’78, ’81; Omnya Hussein ’88; Nayera Fadel ’94; proud to know that some day, the treatment for strains of influenza Islam Badra ’98;Ahmed Zahran ’02; Raghda particular to Egypt or for hepatitis C, of which Egypt has the highest El Ebrashi ’04, ’07; Dina Basiony ’08 infection rate in the world, may be the result of work done at AUC. Another example is in “Unlocking Arabic” (page 10). Justin Majzub Photography Ahmad El-Nemr and Amira Gabr (ALU ’84), who studied Arabic at AUC, was determined to help others learn the language he struggled with, and he spent more than 20 years AUCToday is published three times developing a system to make learning Arabic simple, easy and fun. His a year by the American University system,Abjad, employs a cornucopia of products, including plastic letters in Cairo. that turn, swivel and click into various shapes, in the same way that Arabic We welcome all letters. Submissions may be letters take up different forms depending on where they are in the word. edited for space and clarity. Please send all Majzub’s system is now widely used in Egypt, the Middle East and correspondence to: different parts of the world. His persistence and hard work have paid off, AUCToday and children and adults alike are benefitting from the Abjad system. The American University in Cairo The type of research being done through AUC’s biotechnology program AUC Avenue and Majzub’s Abjad system demonstrate that with P.O. Box 74 patience and perseverance, you will get there.The New Cairo 11835 Egypt key is to have the heart to follow through and or not give up. AUCToday The American University in Cairo 420 Fifth Avenue,Third floor New York,NY 10018-2729 USA tel 20.2.2615.2405 (Egypt) [email protected] www1.aucegypt.edu/publications/auctoday 2 AUCTODAY Fall 2009 InBox AUCToday Mail I write to thank you and your team for the excellent issue of AUCToday’s special edition. It is simply such a wonderful event to be able to share 90 years of celebration and the opening of the new campus through AUCToday.Thanks to the editorial team. Mabrouk! John Macgregor ’69, England and France As a 1952 AUC graduate, I thoroughly enjoyed AUCToday’s Celebrating 90 Years issue. I was also pleasantly surprised to see myself in one of your pictures: page 41 under “Story of the Caravan.” I am the taller one, and Lilly Hayat is on the left. I understand that Lilly passed away in Paris several years ago of cancer.AUC is quite unrecognizable each time I visit Egypt and when I read the magazine, but this issue brought back wonderful memories and it will go in our family album! All the best! Helene Moussa ’52, Canada Inside AUC, Monthly Alumni E-newsletter I applaud this wonderful decision to make good use of Mr. Nabil Fahmy’s capabilities and benefiting of his vision in this new challenging position. Good luck to you all. Abdalla Zaki ’72, United States I was so happy to read a message from my dear old friend Motaz Derhalli ’62. He took me back to our good, old days in AUC, the old campus and the images that it brought back as if it were only yesterday. I was also happy to read in the same newsletter the appointment of another friend H.E. Mr. Nabil Fahmy as head of the new School of Public Affairs.A worthy appointment. Greetings to all 1962 graduates and friends. Khalil Othman ’62, Switzerland A quick note to say how pleased I was with my June issue of Inside AUC. It was my first since I joined the alumni online community.Your coverage of the homecoming weekend on the new campus was excellent. I felt I was right there celebrating with fellow AUCians.Also, the story on Omar Samra’s conquests was inspiring. Omar never seizes to amaze. I hope the Class Notes section is a regular feature of the newsletter. It’s so much easier to find the notes here than by searching for them online. My June class note has had the fantastic result of putting me in touch with a very dear friend I haven’t seen for nearly 50 years. He saw my note, looked up my e-mail address and wrote. It was a thrill for both of us. Finally, could you, in a future issue, bring us up to date on the work being done on the alumni wall and how the engraving process is going? There is a story in this right there. Motaz Derhalli ’62, Canada Ed –– AUCToday checked with AUC’s development office.To date, a total of 1,768 bricks have been named.This year, with the closing of the fundraising campaign for the New Cairo Campus and the sale of bricks concluded,AUC has initiated the brick production process. Installation is scheduled to begin within the coming spring semester, and the bricks should be installed by the summer of 2010. We Would Like to Hear From You AUCToday welcomes letters from readers. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Please send to [email protected] or Editor, AUCToday, Office of Communications and Marketing,AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt 3 AuScenes AUC Trustee Kenneth Bacon Passes Away enneth H. Bacon,AUC trustee, Thailand. Bacon also initiated new K Wall Street Journal reporter and advocacy programs on peacekeeping chief Pentagon spokesman under and statelessness. He played a pivotal former President Bill Clinton, died at role in finding homes for displaced age 64 after a battle with melanoma.
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