The American University In Cairo Press imprint: 238 books
by Halim Barakat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes and in particular one wounded bird as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact...
The Pharaoh's Kitchen
Recipes from Ancient Egypts Enduring Food Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
How to cook and eat like the ancient Egyptians, from the author of My Egyptian Grandmothers Kitchen.
The Palm House
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when he meets Sandra, a young Austrian woman, who shows him the Palm House. In...
Abusir
Realm of Osiris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last forty years,...
Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis
Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of the State Ministry for Antiquities and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directed by the editor. The Project is dedicated to the clearing, restoration,...
Hunger
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
As with his earlier works, Mohamed El-Bisatie's novel is set in the Egyptian countryside, about which he writes with such understanding. Episodic in form, it deals with a family Zaghloul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffering wife, and two young boys. The central theme of the book is hunger:...
Rain over Baghdad
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth,...
Revolution Is My Name
An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February 2011. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear,...
by Sahar Khalifeh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
In this powerful novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh examines the stark realities in the lives of Palestinian women. Through her protagonist, Zeynab, born to an American mother and a Palestinian father, Khalifeh illuminates the disorienting experience of living between two worlds, and...
by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Galal Amin once again turns his attention to the shaping of Egyptian society and the Egyptian state in the half-century and more that has elapsed since the Nasserite revolution, this time focusing on the era of President Mubarak. He looks at corruption, poverty, the plight of the middle class, and...
Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism
The Theological and Ideological Basis of al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Beginning with an examination of medieval Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Kharjism, Ibadism, Hanbalism, and Wahhabism, Sayed Khatab looks at the similarities and differences between them and present organizations such as al-Qa*'ida. It may be surprising that many of the radical narratives...
A Tunisian Tale
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and...
The Man from Bashmour
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Egypt in the ninth century ad: an Arab, Muslim ruling class governs a country of mostly Coptic-speaking Christians. After an exorbitant land tax imposed by the caliph's governors sparks a peasant revolt, Budayr is dispatched to the marshlands of the Nile Delta as an escort for a church-appointed emissary...
Traveling Through Egypt
From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
"Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers." al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000 To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river,...