Cairo imprint: 257 books
The Scents of Marie-Claire
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This novel from one of Tunisia’s leading writers, the first of his works to be translated into English, narrates a love story in all its stages, in all its glorious and inglorious details. Moment by moment we become acquainted with the morning rituals, the desires of the flesh, the turbulence of...
Arab Women Writers
A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's...
The Smiles of the Saints
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"I have returned to settle my account. . . ." Told through the voices of a group of close friends and spanning a generation, The Smiles of the Saints is an epic story condensed into a short, intricate novel. Twenty-year-old Haneen has just returned to Egypt after an absence of fifteen years...
Egypt in Flux
Essays on an Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist...
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
by Samia Abdennour
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
How do Egyptian Muslims celebrate Ramadan? How do Copts Egyptian Christians celebrate Easter? What should you expect to find on the table when invited to eat in an Egyptian home? What do you say when an Egyptian colleague sneezes? Exactly what do Egyptians do with a mortar and pestle, a sieve, and...
by Halim Barakat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes and in particular one wounded bird as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact...
by Elisabetta Cametti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Katherine Sinclaire è una donna che ama le sfide. Il suo talento l’ha portata a diventare direttore generale della 9Sense Publishing, una delle più potenti case editrici mondiali. È abituata ad avere tutto sotto controllo, ma quando entra nell’ufficio del suo amministratore delegato e lo trova...
Egypt’s Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster? (New Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to...
The Red Land
The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
For thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial-though until now little understood-role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were reluctant...
Egypt from Alexander to the Copts
An Archaeological and Historical Guide Revised Electronic Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
After its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 bc, Egypt was ruled for the next 300 years by the Ptolemaic dynasty founded by Ptolemy I, one of Alexander's generals. With the defeat of Cleopatra VII in 30 bc, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, and later of the Byzantine Empire. For a millennium...
Egypt Visual Sourcebook
For Artists, Architects, and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An essential reference to Egypt's architectural heritage. This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers-from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors, and painters. It utilizes color photographs...
From Akhenaten to Moses
Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus,...
Marcus Simaika
Father of Coptic Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation of Egypt. From a young age, he developed a passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light on centuries of Christian Egyptian history...