Feature: Before and after revolution: AUC activities

Host: Nada Badawi
Interviews: Farah Yousry (via DAR http://dar.aucegypt.edu/handle/10526/2605) and Omar Ezzedin
Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeEDQMLtyGY

Script:

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After the January 25 Revolution in Egypt, a number of AUC students started activities to help rebuild the country. The revolution was also an opportunity for students engaged in clubs to host the events they wished for.

Few weeks after the eighteen days of the uprising, President Lisa Anderson enforced a freedom of expression policy. The policy was enforced to replace the very restrictive policies of the past.
Since then, AUC students were informed via e-mail that "all speech is now protected."

Editor in Chief of AUC's newspaper, The Caravan, Farah Yousry talks about her experience while working at the Model Arab League at AUC before the revolution.

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"We faced a lot of obstacles and sometimes the university would not allow a certain keynote speaker to come because he's politically controversial or may be the regime doesn't like him, so we don't want to get into trouble. The same time with the documentary when we were making a documentary when I asked one of the voice overs, he's a famous presenter, radio presenter, and i gave him the script and it had a lot of nuances and a lot of euphemism, political euphemism, that might get him into trouble as he thought so, he said "no I wouldn't say that." I had to change the script to cater for his willingness to say the script." (0:33)

Yousry states that now thanks to the revolution, Model Arab League is no longer facing the same restrictive policies.

President and founder of club organization Developers Inc. Omar Ezzedin says his club doesn't face any obstacles to host any controversial figures. However, he says he considers cultural boundaries when hosting events.

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"Well, the difficulties that I might be facing are not regarding policies of AUC. I mean I can get any speaker I want, I can promote any idea I want as long as its within certain boundaries, more of cultural and ethical boundaries that don't have to do with political boundaries." (0:20) 

Developers Inc. which started few months after the revolution, has been hosting controversial figures like Samira Ibrahim who was subjected to Egypt's virginity tests in March 2011.

Model Arab League on the other hand, hosted Ayman Nour in April 2011 although AUC's Office of Student Development disapproved the club's decision to invite him on campus as a keynote speaker.

Other student organizations are now more free to host any public events or figures even when it comes to entertainment.

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Man on the street: Presidential candidates cause controversy among Egyptians

Host: Nada Badawi
Producer: Lamees Hazem
Question asked: Who are you going to vote for in the presidential elections in Egypt? Why?
People interviewed: Ahmed Mohsen, Mona Abdel Monsef, Mohamed Magdi and Yara Abdallah
Music from megauplod.com (via Youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06n15kQzo0&feature=related
Link to the text of the audio: http://bit.ly/JI4ZxA
Link to the audio on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/L1hhi0
Device used to record: M-Audio 

As Egyptians prepare to vote for their first presidential candidate, some remain confused about which of the twelve candidates they’ll vote for. 

The presidential candidates have caused controversy among Egyptians and political groups who are not sure who’s still affiliated to the old regime and who’s not.

The upcoming elections are considered the country’s first free and fair elections in the history of Egypt. They’re the first to be held after the January uprising. 

Final Audio Documentary: Revolutionary Rhythms in Egypt and the American University in Cairo

This is my final audio documentary project for JRMC460 on revolutionary music in Egypt and at the American University in Cairo (AUC).

I tackle my topic from an angle where I focus on how the revolution allowed for such kind of music to emerge in streets, homes and the American University in Cairo (AUC). I also discuss the struggle of some artists to perform their controversial music, and how some educational institutions such as AUC, act as a much more convenient venue for them to perform.

I interview Hazem Shaheen from music band Eskenderella.
Shaheen talks about his music experience in Tahrir Square and the threats his band faces.

My project also features Omar Ezzedine, AUC student who founded club organization Developers Inc. and has been hosting events featuring revolutionary singers at AUC. Ezzedine talks about reasons why revolutionary artists such as Shaheen and Ramy Essam should be holding concerts at AUC.

I additionally interview current Student Union President Ahmed Alaa Fayed who describes and explains AUC students' taste in music related to the revolution, and thanks the revolution for allowing AUC policies to change.

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