From someone who was present at the last AUC Senate meeting…
auc senate is considering a statement discouraging the invitation of israeli academics
they are weighing risks of losing accreditation vs the obvious moral choice
58-42 in favor of boycott.
Anyone has more details?
UPDATE: Some updates from the AUC Senate meeting…
“Revised AUC Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics [...]

Read about it here, here, here and there…

I think the experience of the professors’ national strike on 23 March is worth more examining, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned from it.. One of the things I like about the current campaign is the blog the profs launched, not only to publicize their action, but also to communicate with [...]

Click on the poster below to read a feature in As-Safir, by journalist and friend Amira Howeidy, on “Egypt’s Spring of Strikes”…

Sarah Carr reports…
Professors throughout Egypt went on strike Sunday to renew demands for better pay and working conditions.
Simultaneous protests were held at 1 pm outside university administrative buildings. Some 200 university professors attended the protest at Cairo University.
According to Dr Mohamed Abul Ghar, a member of the University Autonomy Group (popularly known as the March [...]

In response to the racist treatment of the local employees and arbitrary sackings, more than 200 of the Egyptian employees who work for the French embassy and cultural centers are on strike… More details in Arabic, English and French could be found here and here…

The profs are still determined to go ahead with their national strike on 23 March, despite coming under pressures from the regime… For continuous updates, keep an eye on the Egyptian Universities Strike and Tadamon Blogs…
In other developments, the Socialists on campuses continue mobilizing in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance… While in Alexandria, the Muslim [...]

I received a statement signed by six Egyptian human rights groups denouncing the ongoing wave of violence and abductions unleashed by the police and the pro-govt students against activists on campuses… Click on the poster below to download the statement…

I received a statement from the AFTEE denouncing the crackdown on student activists in Cairo University by both the administration and police… You can download the statement here…

The Socialist Students on Cairo University campus are mobilizing against the increased tuition fees. Click on the poster below to read Comrade Mostafa’s report…

Al-Masry Al-Youm also reports on the campaign here…
There’s so much happening on the other campuses too, but I don’t have time to post on all events, so kindly keep an eye on [...]

The Center for Socialist Studies invites you to a talk on
Neoliberalism and the Egyptian Universities
Speakers: Mostafa Shawqi, Resistance Movement at Helwan University
Mostafa Mahmoud, Socialist Students at Cairo University

Monday, 19 November, 5pm
The Center is located: 7 Mourad St, Giza

[Students from the Campus Antiwar Network marching from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

From Al-Masry Al-Youm:
Around 3600 tax officers in the Upper Egyptian town of Bani Sweif and the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya staged a sit-in Sunday, demanding improving their work conditions to match those of their colleagues in Cairo.
In the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, civil servants in the Ministry of Education are threatening to strike [...]

Mubarak’s Minister of Education has rejected calls from the opposition to revive the National Union of Students, which was abolished by President Sadat in 1979, describing the idea as “communist”!!!!