Cairo: 286 books
Afterglow of Empire
Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta...
El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa
International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial...
From Pharoah's Lips
Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day...
Jerusalem without God
Portrait of a Cruel City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound existence. Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi,...
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...
Arab Spring in Egypt
Revolution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
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,...
Egypt's Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull...
The Dream
A Diary of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila,...
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs
An Omani Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by...
by Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder,...
The Foreign Policies of Arab States
The Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The first edition of this book was praised as "a milestone for present and future research on Arab and Third World foreign policies" (American Political Science Review), and "an indispensable aid for those studying or teaching the foreign policies of the contemporary Middle East"...
Traveling through Sinai
From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Sinai has long attracted travelers to its ancient caravan routes and haunting landscapes, and visitors have frequently left written accounts of their experiences. In this wide-ranging anthology, Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel- Hakim have collected dozens of accounts and observations from travelers...