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Bassily Auditorium, AUC New Cairo Campus
American University in Cairo, New Cairo
Cairo, Al Qāhirah, 11835
Egypt

The Bastet Project

Genuine original music blending Egyptian timbre with Western Operatic vocal majesty through modern harmony texture. “Bastet” was a goddess of music in the glorious Ancient Egypt. Created in 2014 by the collaboration of six musicians passionate for music alongside their different studies/careers: Magued (Composer, Piano), Samuel (Oud), Amir (Guitar), Shady (Percussions), Emad (Bass), and Nadine (Soprano).

Ahmed Hayman

Ahmed Hayman is an award winning photographer. He graduated in 2008 from Misr University for Science & Technology, Mass Communication with specialization in broadcasting. He started his career as a photojournalist at Akhbar El Hawadeth Weekly and Al Masry Al Youm. He held various exhibitions among which are an exhibition about Gaza (2010) and an exhibition about people living on the street (2007) at Al Sawy Cultural Wheel.

Ahmed Zahran

Ahmed holds a MSc in Economics from the University of London,a diploma from the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin in Philosophy & Literature. Ahmed holds a BSc in Finance from the AUC. After obtaining his BSc he worked in Tunisia as a financial planning analyst of the Shell gas distribution activities for two years. Then worked with Shell Trading in London as a finance adviser for the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS). After returning to Egypt, Ahmed worked as the CDM & Renewable Energy Business Development Manager at Egypt Kuwaiti Holding where he helped establish their carbon trading & renewable energy business

ElNafekha- The Blowers

The"blowers"-"ElNafekha"offers musical pieces in the context of theatrical performances that are presented through: musical instruments, body language, costumes, visual and sound effects, and occasionally singing. We can call this newborn style: music theatre.

Galal Zekri Chatila

Galal Zekri Chatila is a 21 year old adventurer, traveler and filmmaker. At the age of 14 he managed to break from society's norms when he went on a walking trip to Suez (80 KM from Cairo); and at the age of 15, he cycled to Ismailya (100 KM from Cairo). Realizing that this is what he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he went on further trips like his trip to Al Wahat (1650 KM from Cairo) to gain experience and turn traveling around Egypt into an official career.

Ghalia ElSrakbi

Ghalia ElSrakbi, a Syrian Artist, Graphic designer and researcher. She completed a BA Graphic Design at Artez Hogeschool voor de Kunst, Arnhem, followed by a Masters in Design at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. In 2009, she followed a research post-graduate at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Since 2014 she is based in Cairo, Egypt where she teaches at the American University and German University, both in Cairo.

Islam Hussein

Dr. Islam Hussein is a virologist. Currently, he is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He graduated from Zagazig Veterinary School in 1999, and earned his doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2007. His research tackled an array of viruses, including herpes, HIV and influenza.

Khaled ElMahgoub

Khaled ElMahgoub is a manager at Trimble Navigation, a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Moreover, he is a researcher at the Auto-IDs Lab at the MIT. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical communications engineering from Cairo University, Egypt and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, USA.

Lama El Hatow

Lama El Hatow is an Environmental Specialist focused on issues related to climate change and water resources. Lama is currently pursuing her PhD in Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands on the “Trans-boundary water solutions under climate change across the Nile River Basin including Egypt”. She is also the Co-Founder of the Water Institute of the Nile (WIN), a think tank established by Egyptian youth with an alternative vision for the basin-wide management of water resources of the Nile River, focused on win-win solutions between civil society of Nile riparian countries

Laura Boushank

Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer, whose work focuses on women, literacy and education reform in the Arab world. After completing a BA in sociology at the Lebanese University,she began her photography career covering news for the Associated Press in Lebanon. Then worked as a photo editor and photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) .Her nine-year wire service experience included covering hard news in conflicts such as the war in Iraq and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. Her photographs have been published & exhibited both locally and internationally

Liza van der Linde

Liza van der Linde, a Dutch educational trainer and consultant, has been working in the field of education since 1976. After teaching children from 4-12 year and specializing in children with learning problems, in 1992 she started to live in Egypt. She finished her diploma of teaching following the Montessori philosophy in 2002 in Cairo from MEPI (USA).

Mariam Abdel Azim

Mariam Abdel Azim is an Architect who holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from the American University in Cairo and a M.Sc. in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During her study at MIT, she also worked as a research and a teaching assistant at the School of Architecture and Planning. Mariam is currently a practicing architect in New York City.

Mohamed ElBaih

Mohamed ElBaih is a beatboxer and musician who has been travelling lately to introduce the art of doing beatboxing and playing an instrument at the same time

Sara El Sayed

Sara is co-founder of Nawaya a social enterprise working as a catalyst to transition small scale farmer communities into more sustainable ones through education and research. Sara is also co-founder of Dayma a LLC responsible for outdoor Environmental Education, teaching young adults about bio-mimicry and local Egyptian communities. She is an avid traveler and enjoys tasting foods, cooking and interacting with people through food experiences. Sara is on the board of Slow Food, an international movement that started in Italy aiming to safeguard local food cultures and traditions and does so by promoting Good, Clean and Fair food for all.

Tarek Shawki

Dr. Tarek Shawki is the Dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering at the American University in Cairo. Educated at Cairo University and Brown University in Rhode Island, U.S. Dr. Shawki spent 13 years as a researcher and professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the top engineering schools in the world. He has a Ph. D. and an M. Sc. in engineering, an M. Sc. in applied mathematics, and a B. Sc. in mechanical engineering.

Yasmine ElHagry

Yasmine El Hagry is the head of Advocacy and Awareness department at Wataneya Society for the Development of Orphanages. She studied Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She strongly believes that each child deserves a happy and a safe childhood. She attributes this belief, which turned into a life mission, to her caring parents, who provided her with a happy childhood that positively affected her personality.