Cairo imprint: 257 books

by Elisabetta Cametti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018

Il guardiano dei Musei nazionali delle residenze napoleoniche sa che la sua vera identità è stata scoperta. Stanno venendo a prenderlo. Ma non si farà catturare vivo, perché quello è l’epilogo di un piano scritto anni prima. L’eredità di Napoleone è in pericolo, e lui è pronto a trasferirla...
by Elisabetta Cametti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016

Una donna scomparsa da dieci anni. Un artista ossessionato da un unico, definitivo capolavoro. Un serial killer nel braccio della morte. Un numero ricorrente: 29. Veronika Evans, discussa fotoreporter delle nobili cause, non vuole più saperne di collaborare con il nypd: ha ancora negli occhi la...

Crowds and Sultans

Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

by Amina Elbendary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects of recurrent plagues to changes in international trade routes. Both these challenges and the policies and behaviors...
by Latifa Al-Zayyat
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004

The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in...

Dividing the Nile

Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56

by David E. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the emergence of Sudanese nationalism. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests,...

Yusif Sayigh

Arab Economist and Palestinian Patriot: A Fractured Life Story

by
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

An acclaimed economist and lifelong Palestinian nationalist Yusif Sayigh (1916-2004) came of age at a time of immense political change in the Middle East. Born in al-Bassa, near Acre in northern Palestine, he was witness to the events that led to the loss of Palestine andhis memoir therefore constitutes...

The Collar and the Bracelet

An Egyptian Novel

by Yahya Taher Abdullah
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008

Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of...

Campioni si diventa

Fare gol in campo e nella vita

by Marco Cassardo
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Lo chiamano mental coach, ma sarebbe più giusto chiamarlo mister della mente. Se desideri raggiungere un obiettivo, devi ricordarti che la testa non è soltanto qualcosa su cui appoggiare il cappello: così come si allenano tecnica, tattica e fisico, non puoi fare a meno di allenare anche la mente....

Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians

An Annotated Bibliography 1995–2016 Updated Edition

by Lisa Sabbahy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018

This updated and expanded annotated bibliography presents and describes over 1,200 books, dissertations, excavation reports, and articles relevant to the paleopathology of the ancient Egyptians from the fields of Egyptology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, making it possible for...
by Riccardo Rossi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2017

Eccoli, sono arrivati, i fatidici cinquanta. E superata la temuta boa, tutto cambia. Comincia il Grande Lavoro che ti impegnerà per le decadi successive: esorcizzare la paura di invecchiare, ed è una faccenda lunga, laboriosa. Ti ricompri il giradischi per sentire di nuovo quei vinili che per fortuna...
by Mona Prince
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Passion, unconventional romance, and the determination of a strong female character to live her life freely. This audacious novel opens with Ayn as she reflects on the act of writing and wonders if love alone is sufficient subject for a narrative. Haltingly at first, she weaves the tale of her love...
by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with fancy cars, expensive clothes,...
by Elena Mearini
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2017

Cesare Forti, cinquant'anni, dalla vita ha solo il meglio. Ha sposato Margherita, che è splendida, elegante, sempre capace di parole che gli altri vogliono sentire. Insieme hanno una bambina, Maya, la loro principessa. Nel suo lavoro Cesare è considerato un guru, attorno ha una corte di persone...
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