2003-07-24 04:00:00 PDT New York -- John D. Gerhart, a specialist in African agriculture and land use for the Ford Foundation and president of the American University in Cairo until his retirement ...

The university was located originally in Tahrir Square, in the center of Cairo, a hyper-urban landscape where the air is thick, the din overwhelming and the mosaic of Egyptian life on every corner ...

Founded in the Egyptian capital back in 1919, the American University in Cairo has long been one of the highest-performing English-language universities in the Middle East. A private institution ...