The American University In Cairo Press imprint: 238 books
by Yusuf Idris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national...
by M.M. Tawfik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
"When the first armchair smashed into the asphalt, Sergeant Ashmouni was at his usual spot on the median of the Nile Corniche, trapped by the road's twin currents turbulently flowing forth to Maadi and back to Old Cairo. He was wiping the sweat away from his eyes with his worn out sleeve and...
Being Abbas el Abd
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
"The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement." Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures" The Daily Star "What is madness?" asks the...
Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating,...
Memories In Translation
A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name,...
The Valley of the Kings
A Site Management Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
During the New Kingdom (c. 1570-1070 BCE), the Valley of the Kings was the burial place of Egypt's pharaohs, including such powerful and famous rulers as Amenhotep III, Rameses II, and Tutankhamen. They were buried here in large and beautifully decorated tombs that have become among the country's...
Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian
Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century,...
The Food Question in the Middle East
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 4
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. This interest has emerged from the global food crisis and its impact on the environment and the political economy...
The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic
Cairo Papers Vol. 33, No. 4
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists,...
Ten Again and Other Stories
and other stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some...
Candygirl
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Trying to evade intelligence agencies out to assassinate him, the Cerebellum, an Egyptian scientist with a past association with the Iraqi nuclear program, rents a room on the roof of a brothel in a Cairo slum. His interaction with the other residents is limited; instead he spends most of his time...
Mapping My Return
A Palestinian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from...
The Days
His Autiobiography in Three Parts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
For the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a...
Sinai
Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...