On May 9, an Egyptian man who was in the area of the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo attacked ARCE Scholar-in-Residence, Christopher Stone. Professor Stone has requested that ARCE provide this information to correct inaccurate reports in the press and on social media.

John Adams, director emeritus of the Orange County Public Library, former ARCE Board of Governors member, and founder and first president of the ARCE Orange County California Chapter, has written a fascinating new book on the life and times of Theodore M. Davis and his impact on the history of Egyptology.

Without prioritizing texts in formal Arabic over those in the spoken idiom, this symposium, held in early March, called on presenters – artists, academics and critics – to comment on their own or others’ cultural responses to the above or other political events in Egypt, a consistently important cultural center in the Arab world.

In Lexington, with a team that included a carpenter, saddler, blacksmith and conservator, we recreated a full-scale model of an ancient Egyptian harness and chariot.

ARCE member and professor Th. Emil Homerin has published two books in over the past year.