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In Crisis Mode, OIP Put to the Test

By Laura Engshuber April 29, 2011

After a semester wracked with international challenges, Laura Monarch, the director of the overseas studies in the Office of International Programs, got a breather this week to discuss how she orchestrated...

Students Settle In at Alternatives to Cairo

By Heather Flynn February 25, 2011

Though the American University in Cairo reopened the week of Feb. 14, none of the 15 Georgetown students who began their semesters there will return. University spokeswoman Julie Bataille stated that...

Little Time in Cairo Yields Big Lessons

By Richard Rinaldi February 8, 2011

My understanding of the situation in Egypt is limited. Here's what I know: President Hosni Mubarak has been in power since 1981, and his government is beset by corruption; the country has stabilized but...

Little Time in Cairo Yields Big Lessons

By Richard Rinaldi February 8, 2011

My understanding of the situation in Egypt is limited. Here's what I know: President Hosni Mubarak has been in power since 1981, and his government is beset by corruption; the country has stabilized but...

Charged Up

By Peter Brigham February 3, 2011

As Wadhah Al Shugaa (SFS '12) walks across the campus of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, where he is currently studying abroad, all he hears — from the classroom to the souq— is talk of...

Students in Middle East React to Riots Embroiling Region

By Laura Engshuber February 1, 2011

The turmoil in Egypt may have hit home for the 15 Georgetown students evacuated from their Cairo study abroad program on Monday, but for others spending time in the Middle East, the threat of wholesale...

Evacuated from Cairo, A Year Abroad Cut Short

By Michelle Saks February 1, 2011

Once semester down and one to go, I arrived in Egypt last Friday eager to begin another term abroad in Cairo and see my friends. Finding tanks in the street, road blocks in place, shops closed, a curfew...

A Job Well Done: Cairo Students Safely Evacuated to SFS-Qatar

By The Editorial Board February 1, 2011

As we watched the volatile political situation unfold in Egypt this week and started thinking about the implications of the recent demonstrations, many of us also wondered about our classmates who had...

GU Evacuates All 15 Students Studying in Egypt

By Eamon O'Connor and Laura Engshuber January 30, 2011

All 15 Georgetown students studying at the American University in Cairo have been evacuated from Egypt, where a nine-day-old uprising against President Hosni Mubarak's regime has prompted the leader...

Amid Cairo Riots, Students Learn Political Lessons

By Laura Engshuber January 28, 2011

With another political protest set to hit the streets of Cairo today, a handful of Georgetown students studying abroad in Egypt are getting a first-hand look at a subject central to many of their studies. On...

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