Of course tomb robbery has been going on since ancient times, but Kent Weeks, Professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo says the past two years have seen a dramatic increase in such crimes.
When I'd booked my ticket to Cairo a few months earlier, I had envisioned a pleasant week and a half spent wandering around the city, meeting up with old friends and gathering material for a novel that was inspired in part by my time as a student at the American University of Cairo.
The book also includes a pedagogical toolkit produced by experts from the American University of Lebanon, Cairo University, University of Jordan and other international schools.
The University Network will include in its initial phase eight universities: Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Cairo University (Egypt), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Temple University (USA), Beijing Tsinghua University (China), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia).
"We are back to ground zero when it comes to the uncertainty, " said Al Ississ of American University in Cairo.
The boy earned high enough marks to win a place at the respected engineering faculty of Cairo University, a hotbed of Islamism in the 1970s, and then a scholarship to the University of Southern California.
It was still associated with Sufis, and a cluster of coffee houses grew up in Cairo around the religious university of the Azhar.
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After a childhood accident left him a quadriplegic, he devoted his early life to Islamic scholarship and studied at al-Azhar university in Cairo, the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Alberto Cairo teaches at the University of Miami and Richard Heiberger teaches at Temple University.
Among the individuals to pull out was Mustapha Gamel Al Sayyid, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo.
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Professor Joel Beinin, head of Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo, says the economic gains the Mahalla workers won are important.
Morsi -- who has bachelor's and master's degrees from Cairo University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California -- insists that under his leadership, such abuses won't happen.
Morsi -- who has Bachelor and Master degrees from Cairo University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California -- insists that under his leadership, such abuses won't happen.
"Alaa is not going to co-operate with the authorities but he doesn't want to put his wife and child through the stress of the police turning up on his doorstep, so he has come of his own accord today, " the Cairo University professor said outside the office.
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President Obama announced the creation of this annual event during his 2009 speech at Cairo University in Egypt, and he hosted the inaugural Summit in Washington, D.
Mr Fadl makes his case for the compatibility of democracy and Islam from the University of California at Los Angeles, probably a more secure setting than his native Cairo.
Al-Azhar University, a revered 1, 000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim teaching in Cairo, has come out strongly against any change.
"The average Egyptian is extremely disappointed, seeing this as another chapter in the history of the collapse of Egypt's police forces, " said Mazen Hassan, a political-science professor at Cairo University.
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