Cairo International Model United Nations (CIMUN) is a collegiate level

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organisation that is based in Cairo, Egypt. The CIMUN program is the oldest student activity on the American University in Cairo (AUC) campus and is currently recognised as one of the largest inter-collegiate model United Nations programs outside of North America. It is well known for its annual conference in March.

History

It was founded in 1989 by a group of AUC students under the guidance of the Provost of AUC, Professor Earl Tim Sullivan, during his time as a professor in the department of political science. A fund was made in 2005 in honour of

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, under which a conference and meeting room for the support of the model United Nations was created. Since 2007, several elite high school students have been chosen by merit to join the conference. This has led to the expansion of the model from modelling only one UN council to seven:Makary, Ada
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, HRC, ICJ,

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, CTC, and

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. In 2010, CIMUN won the Outstanding Delegation Award while at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York. While this is the second time the group has won the award, this time is considered more important because the group was representing their own country, Egypt. CIMUN won the outstanding delegation award in all the following years. That means they won the award for twelve consecutive years along with multiple honorable mentions.

High Board members

Each year a different High Board is chosen to lead the organization's team. Every High Board consists of three positions: Secretary General, Graduate Advisor and Organizing Committee Head. The following is a list of the High Boards since 2002: 2002-2003: Mohamed Gabr, Mohamed Hilal, Dina Harb/Mohamed El Zanaty 2003-2004: Mohamed Menza, Mohamed Gabr, Mohamed El Zanaty 2004-2005: Hedayat Heikal, Sara Rizk, Moataz Samir 2005-2006: Mena Rizk, Tarek Mahfouz, Nora Badra 2006-2007: Nouran Kashef, Yasmine El Rifaie, Noha Khalid 2007-2008: Omar El Orabi, Dalia Ashour, Nadia Mohasseb 2008-2009: Kismet El Husseiny, Pensee Afifi, Sara Negm 2009-2010: Hussein Salama, Omar El Nayal, Amin Badra 2012-2013: Mokhtar Ibrahim, Shatha El Nakib, Hussien Heiba 2013-2014: Yara Sakr, Munir Beletemal, Ali Hossam 2014-2015: Radwa Hamed, Rana Shafik, Hesham Sadek 2015-2016: Mohamed El-Serkeek, Mariam Mohsen, Ramy Mubasher 2016-2017: Omar Zaky, Nour Shafik, Omar Rezk 2017-2018: Mohamed ElShalakany, Omar Zaky, Mazhar Ibrahim 2018-2019: Marwan ElSayed, Ziyad Rushdy, Mariam Hatem 2019-2020: Farh Elwishi, Youssef Sabek, Lamis Sallam 2020-2021: Abdullah Bakr, Nour Abdeldayem, Nada Khaled 2021-2022: Youssef Ragai, Fayrouz Ibrahim, Nada Selim 2022-2023: Lara Radwan, Farid H. Moursi, Ali Hussein Ali

March conference

CIMUN holds an annual conference in March. Its primary goal is to increase student interest in and awareness of the United Nations and international affairs. The conference events are wholly organised by students. Participants from international universities—including Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Concordia, and

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—have attended the conference.

Keynote speakers

The following is a list of some notable keynote speakers for past March conferences, along with the year of the speech: *

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* Ali El Din Helal * Ahmed Maher *

Suzanne Mubarak Suzanne Mubarak ( ar, سوزان مبارك , née Thabet; born 28 February 1941) is the widow of Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak and was the First Lady of Egypt during her husband's presidential tenure from 14 October 1981 to 11 Februa ...

(1998) *

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...

(2002) *

Youssef Boutros Ghali Youssef Raouf Boutros-Ghali or YBG ( ar, يوسف رؤوف بطرس غالي; born 20 August 1952) is an Egyptian economist who served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2011. He was succeeded by Samir Radwan on 31 ...

, El-Sayed Yassin, and Ibrahim Kamel (2000) *

Nabil Elaraby Nabil Elaraby (Arabic: نبيل العربي; born 15 March 1935) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was Secretary General of the Arab League from 1 July 2011 to 3 July 2016. Previously, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Egypt in Ess ...

(2006) *

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(2007) *

Amr Moussa Amr Moussa ( ar, عمرو موسى, , Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 to 1 July 201 ...

(2008)''Arab League Leaders Admit Policy Failures''
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