UNHCR study suggests that Islamic law has influenced international refugee law

AUC quarantine ends, classes resume

Health workers wearing masks wait to measure the temperature of passengers arriving at Cairo airport -- Reuters

Further cases of H1N1 confirmed in Alexandria; AUC's New Campus off limits to all but residents

Zamalek residents alarmed over cases of the virus in neighborhood dorm

  I've been in this dorm several times and had friends living in it up until the end of last semester.  Luckily they were out before the quarantine.  It's strange how H1N1 seemed so far off when I was in Egypt and then the same day I left the first case was discovered.  I feel for those who are holed up in Zamalek.

  Check out this blog kept by someone who's stuck inside.  The university updates this page with information on the progress of testing for the virus and related administrative decisions.

Another five cases of H1N1 have been confirmed in AUC's Zamalek dorms and Cairo Airport is now screening all passengers. 

Looks like I got out of Egypt just in time: 

AUC students test positive for swine flu, Zamalek dorms quarantined

Ana fi Amreeka

I'm back in the States and hadn't intended on posting much, but found a couple of interesting Rotary links:

Book The New Global Student lauds Rotary's Youth Exchange program for high schoolers

Rotary story about the release of Roxana Saberi, the Japanese-Iranian-American journalist who was imprisoned in Iran

News:

Wall Street Journal: "Obama must address skeptics in Cairo"

New York Times: "Message on Obama Attributed to Bin Laden"

WHO says that case of H1N1 discovered in Cairo unlikely to spread

  Well, nearly two hundred blog posts and over nine months after starting my stint as an Ambassadorial Scholar here in Cairo, I am leaving for Germany tomorrow and continuing onto the US the following day.  Even though I'll only be away from Masr for the summer, it feels more final and more bittersweet than I'd anticipated.  Though a lot of the closer friends I've made here will be here when I get back in the fall, others will have left Egypt for good.

  Three months seems longer as it draws closer and I'm both ecstatic about it and sad about it.  I'll miss spending time with my friends here, but relish in the possibility of picking up where I left off with friends and family back home.

  I have most things wrapped up here and am more or less ready to begin my thesis research.  Grades have been posted for two of my three classes from this semester and in both of those I earned As.  I'm satisfied and feel like I'm leaving on a positive note.  

News:

Much riding on Thursday's Obama speech in Cairo

Dozens of foreign students arrested by Egyptian authorities

American delegation enters Gaza, Egyptians turned back at border