The American University in Cairo

But here is a list of American institutions abroad.

And one of them, the American University in Cairo, had an office across the street in United Nations Plaza.

And I didn't know... that we had no diplomatic relations with Egypt.

I didn't know that the president of the university was a CIA agent, because they didn't have anywhere else to put him.

No? Did you know about this company

before? I went to the, at the time, American University of Cairo to recruit two people for the company I used to work for, which was computer hardware engineering.

And I was supposed to hire two engineers, and I got hired by the recruiter of Schlumberger.

They're good at selling you the dream of being a field engineer.

and ask your doctor if Kaskali is right for you.

She studied cultural anthropology at Barnard Columbia and anthropology filmmaking and Arabic languages at the American University in Cairo.

It's Erika Sashen.

Hi, Erika.

Did I get those dates right?

2005 to 2008, because I studied at the American University of Cairo.

I did about 10 months of Arabic before I started the embassy.

So you were there during this pre-Arab Spring, Egypt.

Cairo is an amazing city.

I mean, it's the first place I went to.

I don't know if you know this, but my first plane ride in my life was when I was 20 years old and I was studying abroad at the American University of Cairo from Villanova.

I'd never flown on a plane in my life before.

That said, to my knowledge, scholars have not conducted any forensic analyses of these photos.

The only sustained scholarly eyewitness account we have comes from Dr. Cynthia Nelson, who was an anthropologist at the American University in Cairo at the time.

She visited the church several times in 1968.

One night, she wrote, "When I looked to where the crowds were pointing, I too thought I saw a light through the branches of the trees, and as I tried to picture a nun-like figure in those branches, I could trace the outline of a figure.

We're trying to raise funds for student projects.

And also there's going to be, uh, this fall a, an in-person version at, uh, American University in Cairo for displaced Gaza students who are in Cairo, okay? So we have expenses and things related to mounting the course there at American University in Cairo.

Please be generous.

We're trying to raise a few thousand to make that possible for those who will have an in-person experience.

At the end of my time at Stanford, I had the opportunity to go to Egypt, actually.

And I spent a year working at the American University in Cairo when it was, back in the days when it was in downtown Cairo, Afmiden Tahrir.

And that was really my first time in the Middle East region.

And then I lived in San Francisco.

I'll tell you a kind of funny story.

It's irreverent, so bear with me.

We got a handbook on the way to Egypt from American University in Cairo that went on for pages about harassment on the streets.

So it said, beware, you know, you're going to be harassed.

As for all men who shall enter this my tomb impure, I shall seize his neck like a bird.

The American University of Cairo has noted that curses like these were common in Saqqara, and their meaning was gruesome.

The phrase, like a bird, was no poetic turn of phrase.

It meant wringing the neck like a goose.