The American University In Cairo Press imprint: 238 books

Maryams Maze

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Maryam's Maze is an enigmatic novel by one of the most promising authors of a vibrant new generation of Egyptian writers. Set in the house of Yusuf el Tagi, Maryam's Maze relates the story of a woman struggling to find her way through the confusion of the world around her. Using the literary device...

In the Time of Love

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Naguib Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Love who can count its varieties, measure its force, uncover the masks it wears, or predict how it binds and divides? In this spare novel, master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz gives us some of his most memorable characters, widely familiar to Egyptians from the film version of the book: Sitt Ain, with...

Leaves Of Narcissus

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Somaya Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

This novel of home and homelessness, of exile both physical and psychological, centers on Kimi, a fragile heroine suffering from a rift in her persona, unable to distinguish between her own pain and the pain of others. For Kimi it is not a simple case of to be or not to be, but rather of how to be...
by Salwa Bakr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

From her cell in a women's prison, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her to heaven, where her wishes and dreams can be fulfilled. As she muses on who to take with her, she tells the life stories of her fellow prisoners and decides in her heart which ones deserve a free ride to paradise....

Pyramid Texts

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Gamal al-Ghitani
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007

With its Sufistic parables of the human condition, rendered in a style redolent of both the austere meditations of Borges and the dark engorged ruminations of Arthur C. Clark, Pyramid Texts engages the mind and beguiles the imagination. In a series of chapters each shorter than the last so that, like...
by Edwar Al-Kharrat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002

Rama and the Dragon, a multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama the symbol of multiplicity and creativity and Mikhail the symbol of unity and constancy. Their story reflects...

Black Magic

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Hamdy el-Gazzar
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007

As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure...

In a Fertile Desert

Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many of the stories in this collection by both men and women from all corners of the country tell of those times and...
by Leila Abouzeid
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003

This thought-provoking, semi-autobiographical book tells the story of Aisha, a young Moroccan woman, and her struggle to find an identity in the Morocco of the second half of the twentieth century. Charting Aisha's path through adolescence and young adulthood up to the present, her story is told through...

Farewell to Alexandria

Eleven Short Stories

by Harry E. Tzalas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004

The eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War. Against a backdrop of major events in Alexandria's history, from the halcyon days of the late 1930s,...

Basrayatha: Portrait of a City

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Mohammed Khudayyir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Mohammed Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets as well as its stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real...

The Polymath

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Bensalem Himmich
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer's works, to construct the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The dominant concern of the...

The Theocrat

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Bensalem Himmich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009

The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ("the ruler by order of God"), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions...

Voyage Through Time

Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize

by Ahmed Zewail
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

From a beginning in an Egyptian Delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this engaging exposé of his life and work until his receipt of the...
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