Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Palace...aka New Campus











American University-Cairo new campus opened just last year. It's palatial and a beautiful testiment to Arabic architecture. Which simultaneously makes it a labrynth of offices and classrooms that can take hours to navigate!
Both of my programs are still on the 'old' or downtown campus, which I've yet to photograph. I'm very glad that most of my classes will be at the downtown campus bc its a five minute walk from my apt, whereas downtown is an hour or two bus ride each way.
My Thursday night class, however, is on the New Campus. When I first arrived to class last thursday night, the entire 'palace' glowed beautifully in the desert. It was calm, quite and with a peaceful desert breeze-- a true oasis to Downtown Cairo!

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