Hanna Baumann

As I See It

Hanna Baumann is a Barnard student studying at the American University in Cairo. Like Columbia, the AUC is an esteemed institution that has nevertheless come under scrutiny in recent years regarding the issue of freedom of speech: Human Rights Watch recently reported that "fear of state censorship has led AUC professors to screen their own course book selections"-limiting the school's curriculum and raising important questions about the meaning of academic freedom in Egypt today.