The American University in Cairo also condemned Mr Ibrahim's arrest as a threat to academic freedom in Egypt.

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Connolly will be launching a course in capital markets and treasury products, at the American University in Cairo, specifically targeted at Islamic scholars.

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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.

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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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Egyptian Muslim Brothers were prominent among the guests in the audience at Cairo University and Brotherhood-associated organizations in America, like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), have rapturously endorsed the speech.

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"We are back to ground zero when it comes to the uncertainty, " said Al Ississ of American University in Cairo.

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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.

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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.

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