The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) is part of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo.

AUC is a member of the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies.

MESC supports research, teaching and outreach across a range of disciplines. MESC administers the BA, Diploma and MA program in Middle East Studies, whose alumni span academia, the private sector, NGOs and government service. Through a variety of curricular and extracurricular activities, we aim to build on our international reputation and location as a natural hub for Middle Eastern studies.

Our organization and participation in conferences, lectures, and workshops serve to present ground breaking research on anthropology, religion, history, political science, economics, gender, law and literature.

• Call for papers for the conference titled, Economic Integration and Marginalization of Refugees in the Contemporary Middle East. For more information, click here

• Ambassador Aly Erfan, PoP at GAPP, with the help of Jessie Steinhauer and Hany Luke from MESC, has developed a document-based compendium for the Syrian crisis: "The Syria Reader." For more information, click here

• On May 10, 2017, H.E. Helmy Fauzy, Indonesia's Ambassador to Egypt, gave a talk titled "Egypt-Indonesia Relations: Towards Strategic Partnership Amidst Global Uncertainty." For more information, click here

• On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, MESC hosted Shoqi Maktary, a former Fulbright scholar, expert on conflict transformation and peacebuilding, and Yemen country director for the nonprofit, Search for Common Ground,who gave a lecture titled, “Building Peace in Yemen." For more information, click here

• New course by Ambassador Aly Erfan offered in Fall 2017, MEST 5280-01: Analysis of the Role of the UN and the Arab League in Middle East Conflicts: Case Studies. For more information, click here

• On March 22, 2017, Robert Mason from the Middle East Studies Center acted as moderator for a presentation "Japan-Arab Academic Dialogue Towards Stability in the Middle East" given by Professor Eiji Nagasawa from the University of Tokyo. For more information, click here

Upcoming Events Sep 16 Middle East Studies Graduate Student Conference Sep 16 All day event: The Graduate Student Conference is titled 'Economic Integration and Marginalization of Refugees in the Contemporary Middle East' and will be on September 16, 2017. AUC New Cairo All Day View More

Middle East Studies Center
Tel (+20) 02 2615 1746/1757 • mesc@aucegypt.edu
AUC Avenue • P.O. Box 74 • New Cairo, 11835, Egypt