Cairo imprint: 257 books
Transforming Loss into Beauty
Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda al-Nowaihi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to...
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...
Egypt's Political Economy
Power Relations in Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This new study deals with the unfolding of the great political and economic transformations of the modern Egyptian state from the appointment of Muhammad Ali as governor of Egypt in 1805 to the era of President Mubarak, with a special focus on the period 1990 2005, which witnessed a rigorous implementation...
Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue...
Coptic Monasteries
Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various...
Studies in Coptic Culture
Transmission and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived...
Amarna Sunset
Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved...
Poisoned Legacy
The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among...
Amarna Sunrise
Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt's political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the most stupendous temples...
Afterglow of Empire
Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta...
El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa
International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial...
From Pharoah's Lips
Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day...
Jerusalem without God
Portrait of a Cruel City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound existence. Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi,...