Karim Asaad

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AUC student sentenced to four years in prison
Karim Asaad
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

The El Warraq Misdemeanor Court in central Cairo handed down a four-year jail sentence and an EGP 100 fine to Ali Abdelhamid Ali for causing the death and injury of 20 people during a traffic accident on the Ring Road in mid-October.

A police investigation determined that Ali’s speeding and reckless driving led to the death of 12 people, one of whom was an infant.

Ali, an AUCian, was driving his black BMW toward the Pyramids area, often clocking speeds of over 150km/h, police sources said.

Sex ed seminar draws large audience
Karim Asaad
Sara Hesham
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
A seminar on sex education and health organized by psychology graduate students, and billed as the first of its kind at AUC, drew an unexpectedly large crowd Wednesday.

Seventy-eight students and faculty members crammed into a small classroom in HUSS to listen to safe sex practices, problems facing fertility, and general health concerns facing young married cou­ples.

Sink or swim, students launch ‘businesses’ at Jamboree
Karim Asaad
Sunday, November 21st, 2010

To encourage students to start their own businesses, the student-run activity Entrepreneur Society (ES) launched Jamboree, a two- day event that allowed students to sell goods in booths in and around the Campus Center.

Booths at the campus center cost EGP 150 per day, while booths at the plaza area cost EGP 250 per day.

Dafrawy tops SJB elections, run-off announced for fifth seat
Karim Asaad
Sunday, November 21st, 2010

Final Student Judicial Board (SJB) election results have been delayed until November 21, when there will be a run-off between two candidates who tied with an equal number of votes for the fifth seat.

Twenty-three candidates contested five seats in the November 11 election.

Ahmed Dafrawy won 1015 votes; Zeina Haggrass; 980; Amr Abaza, 878; and Mohamed Faragg won 732 votes.

Food 2
Did hypermarkets kill the corner store?
Karim Asaad
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
In what is becoming a trend, another global hypermarket chain opened in Egypt last week. Lulu Hypermarkets, a subsidiary of UAE-based EMKE Group, launched operations in Egypt when it opened its first store in Nasr City.

Yusuf Ali, the managing director of EMKE Group, told the press that his company plans to invest EGP 2.8 billion in expanding its retinue of hypermarkets and malls throughout Egypt, which he believes has great potential for growth.

Shafick: I would do it all over again
Karim Asaad
Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Hesham Shafick, the SU president, has vowed to raise awareness of what he says is inadequate security and inefficiency at the AUC clinic.

On October 3, Shafick took a patient to the clinic and was dismayed to find a doctor “sleeping”.

He attempted to wake the doctor; an argument ensued and he left.

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AUC grieves for fallen student
Karim Asaad
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Amidst tears and expressions of shock and anger, the AUC community held a congregational prayer for Ammar Tareq, a journalism and mass communication student, who was killed in a car accident on Road 90 October 19.

Fighting back tears, Tareq’s father led the prayer on Wednesday as dozens of students dressed in ceremonial black colors of mourning gathered to pay their condolences.

Tareq had been driving to the campus on Tuesday morning to attend a Student Union activity.

He swerved to avoid a huge hole in the asphalt on Road 90 but lost control of his white Volkswagen Golf. It flipped over and skid down the road. Tareq, who had not been wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from his seat.

Express yourself theater experiment
Express yourself, stage experiment says
Karim Asaad
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

There’s nothing like a boost of self-confidence in the morning.

Project Yourself, a community initiative, is hoping to instill self-empowerment and achievement by calling on young Egyptian talent to take the stage and speak their minds with no strings attached.

salad bar
Fresh to go, but is it safe?
Karim Asaad
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Students looking for fresh and healthy meal alternatives have been lining up in droves at the salad bar stands scattered around campus.

“I think it is very healthy and it gives students a wider selection of what to eat,” said Farida Abboud, a political science major.

A group of AUC students started a ‘mix-your-own-salad’ business venture last semester amid growing dissatisfaction with available food outlets. It later inspired one of the on-campus fast food restaurants, Mercato, to adopt this concept and set-up a salad bar of their own at another location.