The American University In Cairo Press imprint: 238 books
Women of Karantina
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid soil forge a legend,...
The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate
AD 500-1000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region incorporating Africa with Arabia. The transition from Byzantium to the...
Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality. The author situates this struggle within the...
Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt
Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in northern...
The Fayoum
History and Guide; Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The Fayoum, a large and exceptionally fertile depression in Egypt's Western Desert, some 90 kilometers southwest of Cairo, is a region both rich in history and outstanding in natural beauty. Its historical legacy includes temples, pyramids, and towns from the Middle Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Period,...
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt
Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient Egypt-as an inspiration in the struggle for full...
Egypt, Islam, and Democracy
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
These essays by one of Egypt's most influential intellectuals provide a fascinating perspective on the political, religious, economic, and social issues of contemporary Egypt. Written over a period of fifteen years, the essays cover a range of topics including civil society and the prospects for democratization...
Final Night
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this physical and temporal distance from her homeland, much of her material derives from...
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist
A Woman Apart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Cynthia Nelson brings to life a bold and gifted Egyptian of the mid-twentieth century who helped define what it means to be a modern Arab woman. Doria Shafik (1908-1975), an Egyptian feminist, poet, publisher, and political activist, participated in one of her country’s most explosive periods of...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Rethinking the Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region use trade policy to protect certain industries, provide tax incentives to promote a particular type of investment, and make subsidized credit available to firms of a certain size. Such government intervention, known as industrial policy,...
by Taha Huseein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life (he was at one time Minister of Education). But he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. He became known by the unofficial...
Fustat Finds
Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Corroded pieces of metal, stamped lumps of copper, broken bits of glass with partial inscriptions, fragments of textiles, tiny beads-these were the raw material found at al-Fustat, the site of the first Muslim settlement in Egypt in the seventh century and the heart of Cairo for many centuries following....
In the House of Muhammad Ali
A Family Album, 1805-1952
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but...