Best game trailers

Game trailers improved a lot in the past few years, some game trailers are better than many Hollywood movie trailers now. Being a video game fanatic, i try to test all the new games out there, but i 've been attracted to these trailers more and more because of the high quality of production and the unique ideas put into these things. Here are my top 5 game trailers.

Napoleon total war




I Am Alive



Assassins creed 2




UFC : this is just mad quality



Kane and Lynch 2: this is the best third-person shooter ever.

"AUC Lectures in the Nineties" Audio Documentary

Since the American university in Cairo was established in 1919, it played a major role in promoting an understanding across world cultures, regions, and religions. The university being in Egypt, a culturally rich country in every sense of the word, and an eminent country in the Middle East, was an additional asset to AUC’s mission of bringing together various cultures and ideas.

The AUC Administration managed to turn AUC into a melting pot, where cultural understanding is fostered through introducing a wide range of diversity. The faculty members at AUC, the staff, and the students all come from different countries, cultures, and social classes.

The interaction among people from different backgrounds in a liberal environment enriched the lives of many people involved with AUC along the years. Accordingly, AUC over the past century, contributed to culturally shaping many young minds that later became leaders on the Egyptian scene, and in the region of the Middle East like Gamal Moubarak.

The lectures given at AUC were always an extremely essential component to the role of AUC as a bridge, connecting many cultures, views and ideologies.

Final Project Promos

Audio promo:
Producer and narrator: Mostafa Mohamed
Sound Track: Soviet connection
SOT: Osama El baz, 1991 Lecture



Anchor: The gulf war, the Israeli Palestinian peace agreement the Kosovo war, and the Rwandan genocide. The nineties was a decade full of events, and the AUC lectures covered many of them.

SB:" it is in the interest of America, strategically, economically, politically and diplomatically to be active in the middle east."

Listen to the whole documentary at AUC's New Cairo campus on Sunday, May 16 and Wednesday, May 19 at 10 a.m. each day in the BEC building, room 1061.





Video Promo:

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podcast my'ayad shayk

Facts about Islam

1) "Islam" means " submission to God".

2) Islam is a complete way of life that governs all facets of life: moral, spiritual, social, political, economical, intellectual, etc.

3) There are five pillars of practice in Islam. These practices must be undertaken with the best of effort in order to be considered a true Muslim:
A) Shahadah - declaration of faith in the oneness of God and that Muhammad is the last prophet of God.
B) Formal prayer five times a day.
C) Fasting during the daylight hours in the month of Ramadan.
D) Poor-due "tax" - 2.5% of one's savings given to the needy at the end of each year.
E) Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once, if physically and financially able.

4) There are six articles of faith in Islam. These are the basic beliefs that one must have in order to be considered a true Muslim. They are belief in: A) the One God. B) all the prophets of God. C) the original scriptures revealed to Prophets Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad. D) the angels. E) the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter. F) the divine decree (or destiny).


5) Muslims do not believe in the concept of "vicarious atonement" but rather believe in the law of personal responsibility. Islam teaches that each person is responsible for his or her own actions. On the Day of Judgment Muslims believe that every person will be resurrected and will have to answer to God for their every word, and deed. Consequently, a practicing Muslim is always striving to be righteous.


6) Muslims believe in and acknowledge all the prophets of old, from Adam to Jesus. Muslims believe that they brought the message of peace and submission (islam) to different peoples at different times. Muslims also believe that these prophets were "muslims" because they submitted their wills to God.

Why Hijab?

A couple of days ago i came across this video addressing the issue of Muslim Hijab, and i instantly related to it, because it displayed an inner struggle that many of us have when we know the right thing to do, yet fail to follow through with it for different reasons. I'm a man and i don't have to wear Hijab, but as a Muslim i have to do a lot of things that my parents, my friends and my society consider to be outdated, retarded and unimportant. I try really hard to do the right thing and win my inner struggle, knowing that this struggle is not going to waste, but will be considered by god when the time comes.

Project #5: Radio story

(Creswell room)



(Debbane Room)


(AUC Library, Archive in last floor)




Script:

Since the early 1970s, the University Archives of the American University in Cairo played a big role in collecting, preserving and providing access to materials with historical value created by various AUC units.

The services of the AUC archives are of aid to faculty and student researchers, but the materials were very difficult to reach and use because of the huge amount of files and documents stored.

Now 2 projects in progress were started by the AUC record management that will greatly facilitate accessing materials in the archives.


Steve Urgola, the university archivist, and director of records management is overseeing the creation of an online Index for materials stored as well as digitizing the materials and putting it online.

natsnd of Steve Urgola:

Steve: “We started a new system last year with the help of our digital archivist to take our word files of indexes and put them in the AUC catalogue, so you can search the name of an AUC president for example or a department, and if we have those records that include that name or topic, the system will retrieve the index to that collection.”

Digitizing will not only help preserve a lot of the highly valuable materials in the archive, but also will provide access to the materials through a website related to the AUC library.

Streve “we set up this Dspace system, named AUC Dar, it‘s a digital archive and repository and it’s gives us the chance to hold all kinds of electronic records, student thesis, faulty publications, student projects, scanned items or audio files from the rare books library.”

The collection of the AUC archive is enormous, and it might be years before the digitizing process is completed, plus not all types of collections are being digitized. Terra Kridler, the Digital Collections Archivist said that only a very small portion of the collections were scanned. She also mentioned that not all types of archival material are equally being digitized.

natsnd of Terra Kridler:

Terra Kridler: “we‘ve actually gotten steady collections of materials but not nearly all of the holdings, not even close.”

Members of the AUC administration are supporting the project but there are still not enough resources or staff members to help finalize the project on a set date.

A very small amount of the documentaries, the photographs and the audio records are actually online in digital form but that will change dramatically in the next two years as the AUC DAR project will save AUC a lot of money, space and energy as well as making the life of researchers much easier.