By MEE staff
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST
Last update: ~12:30 EDT

Video footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer's arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag.

"Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won't normalise," the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.

In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.

Rare protests at American University of Cairo drive off former US ambassador

Students at the American University of Cairo staged rare protests against former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer on Tuesday, forcing him and a group of American graduate students to leave the campus.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}