Cairo: 286 books
by Lise Manniche
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak. Fragments of more than thirty statues are now known, showing the paradoxical features combining male and...
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,...
by Richard Hoath
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt is the first comprehensive field guide to every mammal species recorded in contemporary Egypt, from gazelle to gerbil, from hyena to hyrax. Each mammal species is described in detail, with reference to identification features, status, habitat, and habits, and...
Siwa
Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested...
The Egyptian Economy
Current Challenges and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The Egyptian economy has undergone several reforms since the early 1990s. However, it was not until recently that the reform process picked up speed and intensity. Key initiatives included shifting to a flexible exchange rate regime, liberalizing trade, revising and reducing the tariff structure,...
The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt
Issues and Policymaking since 1952
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
What are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy? What are the factors that have facilitated or inhibited its performance? This crucial and timely work answers these questions and more by examining the most important economic decisions to have impacted the Egyptian economy since...
Anubis
A Desert Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in,...
Pedagogy of Empowerment
Community Schools as a Social Movement in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This new study weaves anthropological detail with hard facts and analysis as it takes the reader to visit the community schools of Upper Egypt. It offers a historical understanding of the initiative whilst carefully embedding it in the political and economic global context of the late twentieth century....
by Dalia M. Gouda
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user...
The Modern Neighbors of Tutankhamun
History, Life, and Work in the Villages of the Theban West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Until their recent demolition, the colorful mud-brick hamlets of al-Qurna village, situated among the Noble Tombs of the Theban Necropolis on the Luxor West Bank, were home to a vibrant community. Inhabiting a place of intensive Egyptological research for over two centuries, it was inevitable that...
Il regista
29 ore per non morire
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2015
New York, oggi. Veronika Evans è una fotoreporter che ritrae l’umanità emarginata della metropoli. I suoi scatti scioccanti ottengono milioni di visualizzazioni al giorno, decine di migliaia di tweet all’ora: un immenso popolo di follower in mezzo al quale si può nascondere chiunque. Barbara...
Menorahs and Minarets
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal's home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between his two identities: his Jewish mother's family are cosmopolitan business people, while his father's family are rural farmers...
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:...
Tales from Dayrut
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of...