AUC Hosts Safwan Masri From Columbia University in a Public Lecture

Press release

Published May 1st, 2018 - 05:26 GMT

Safwan M. Masri, executive vice president for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University

A lecture, “Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly”, organized by the School of Humanities and Social Science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). The lecture will examine the factors that contributed to Tunisia’s experience after the Arab spring and how the Tunisian revolution gave way to a peaceful transition and to a functioning democracy.

WHO

Safwan M. Masri is the executive vice president for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and a senior research scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He joined Columbia University in 1988 as a member of the faculty of Columbia Business School and served as vice dean from 1993-2005. Masri is a scholar on education and contemporary geopolitics and society in the Arab world and is the author of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly (Columbia University Press, 2017).

WHERE

Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

WHEN

Monday, May 7, 2018; 6:30pm till 8:00pm

*Safwan Masri will be available for interviews on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 from 9:00am till 5:00pm. Kindly send an email to confirm media requests.

Background Information

American University of Cairo

Founded in 1919, AUC is a leading English-language, American-accredited institution of higher education and center of intellectual, social and cultural life of the Arab world. Its community of students, parents, faculty and staff, trustees, alumni and other generous sponsors represent more than 60 countries. The University stands as a crossroads for the world’s cultures and a vibrant forum for reasoned argument, spirited debate and understanding across the diversity of languages, facilities and human experiences.