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Whether They Flee Egypt's Strife or Wait It Out, Students Face Uncertainties

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 1, 2011

Georgetown University evacuated 15 students from Cairo to its campus in Qatar, while all University of California system students were expected to leave the country on Tuesday. Middlebury College and the Institute for Study Abroad, a study-abroad provider affiliated with Butler University, had chartered a flight for Monday night from Alexandria to Prague. Some 125 international students left the American University in Cairo on Monday. There are generally 800 to 1,000 foreign students attending classes at the university, about half of whom are American.

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