The American University In Cairo Press imprint: 238 books
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...
Aristocrats and Archaeologists
An Edwardian Journey on the Nile
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social...
by Kurt J. Werthmuller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty...
Djekhy & Son
Doing Business in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile. They were also successful agricultural entrepreneurs, cultivating...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This volume is a follow-up to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to examine a wide spectrum of pertinent issues concerning the labor market in Egypt. The range of topics includes...
Popular Egyptian Cinema
Gender, Class, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged globally as significant drivers for inclusive economic growth, contributing to both job and wealth creation. Especially since Egypt's 2011 revolution, the need has become pressing for novel models that capitalize on the country's human resources. Half of...
by Edward William Lane
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educated middle-class Egyptian from Alexandria, describes his experiences and those of migrant workers and professionals in one of the Gulf states,...
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....