American University in Cairo
New Cairo Campus
The Sullivan Lounge
Wed 14, 1pm– 2.30pm: Join Candace Lukasik, assistant professor of religion at Mississippi State University and Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, as she discusses her new book Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire. The book examines sites of transnational migration between Egypt and the United States addressing how American religious imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom.
School of Sciences and Engineering - Room CP22
Wed 14, 12.30pm -3pm: “India’s Economic Paradox: Growth Without Jobs in the World’s Fastest Expanding Economy” is the title of the lecture where Santosh Mehrotra, visiting Professor, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK and ex-Prof (Econ) and Chair of the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, will explore what is the nature of the employment crisis, and how it is related to a structural reversal in the economy in the last decade, and the reasons for it. He will also briefly discuss what can be done to create more jobs, at reasonable wages, before India's demographic dividend runs out. Women’s employment and participation issues, which have invited considerable debate, will be examined as well.
El Sawy Culturewheel
End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448
Word Hall
Fri 9, 5pm: “The Path to Accepting Differences” a lecture by Rabab El-Sheshtawy, Psychological Consultant. She will discuss benefits of cultural diversity for communities, respecting others and coexisting, and how to protect cultural identities from differences.
Sat 10, 5pm: “The Story of the Sorcerers” a lecture by Sheikh Ahmed El-Abady, preacher and researcher at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif.
* A version of this article appears in print in the 8 May, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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