Ahmed Aboul Enein

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Administration backs down
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Massive March
Strike ends as protesters and admin reach compromise
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Protesters ended their week-long strike this afternoon as they reached an agreement with the Administration.

Representatives from the Student Union and the AUC Independent Syndicate met with President Lisa Anderson earlier this morning to negotiate their demands.

Strike temporarily suspended
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Habiba El Husseiny
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The strike that brought AUC to a standstill last week has been put on hold as protesters and the Administration agreed on concessions this afternoon, Student Union Vice-President Ahmed Ezzat said.

Ezzat said President Lisa Anderson would send two emails, one tonight that promises to meet "75 percent" of the security, landscaping and custodial staff's demands and another tomorrow at 9am addressing the short and long-term demands of students.

Both emails are expected to provide a time frame for when the demands will be met.

Arab Spring challenges 9/11 perceptions
Arab Spring challenges 9/11 perceptions
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Reem Gehad - Freelance Reporter
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
This year’s 9/11 anniversary comes at a time when the world watches the Arab people protest and revolt in search of the very freedoms they were often accused of hating.

The shifting Arab political landscape has also come to challenge the negative western perception of Arabs brought about by the 9/11 attacks.

After decades national Egyptian Student Union reactivates
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Gehad Mahmoud
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
After 32 years of being inactive the national Egyptian Student Union (ESU) has been resurrected after a four-day conference held at The American University in Cairo on August 20.

Under President Sadat’s rule the ESU was banned by presidential decree along with a series of other measures that curbed political rights and prevented organized opposition in the same year that Sadat signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.

Day 2 strikes students protesting outside huss
Administration responds to Sunday's strike events
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Farah Najjar - Staff Reporter
Monday, September 12th, 2011
The AUC Administration is in the process of filing cases against students who were involved in yesterday morning’s altercation with security at Gate 4.

Student Union President Ahmed Alaa Fayed told the Caravan he heard from several sources that he and his vice president, Ahmed Ezzat, we

Security staff on strike
Wave of strikes hits New Cairo Campus
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Sunday, September 11th, 2011


Dozens of AUC security guards, joined by Desert Development Center and custodial staff, gathered in front of the administration building to protest poor working conditions this morning.

Analysis: A decade later, Iraq and Afghanistan remain in turmoil
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 would not only dramatically change American lives, but through the course of the next decade affect millions around the world.

In the wake of the attacks the United States declared wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.

On October 7, less than a month after the attacks, American and British military forces, aided by the Afghan United Front, launched Operation Enduring Freedom to oust the Taliban from power and capture Osama bin Laden.

AUCians protest tuition hikes September 4 2011
Low turnout dampens student protest over tuition hikes
Ahmed Aboul Enein
Roqayah Tbeileh
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Dozens of students protested a recent nine-percent increase in tuition fees in front of the administration building during assembly hour Sunday, but the lower than expected turnout signaled more needed to be done to raise awareness.

“We need more people for (the protest)