Cairo: 286 books
Beyond The Victim
The Politics and Ethics of Empowering Cairo's Street Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated....
Trump's World
Challenges of a Changing America: An Anthology from the Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
An anthology from the pages of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs brings together experts from the Middle East and around the world for a penetrating insight into how maverick tycoon Donald Trump captured the White House and a comprehensive survey of the new America president's domestic and international...
Visionaries of Silence
The Reformist Sufi Order of the Demirdashiya al-Khalwatiya in Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform. Practicing a visionary form of piety, the Demirdashiya once...
by Mohamed Berrada
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the...
Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt
On the Peripheries of Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Little is known about Egypt's Gypsies, called Dom by scholars, but variously referred to by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi or Hanagra, depending on their location. Moreover, most Egyptians are oblivious to the fact that there are today large numbers of Gypsies dispersed from the outskirts of villages...
by Idris Ali
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
"This is your last day. Be strong. Don't hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return." Idris Alis confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious...
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...
Temple Bar
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords,...
by Otto F. A. Meinardus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought according to tradition by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split...
Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers
Two Modern Arabic Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In these two short novels, Bahaa Abdel Meguid displays the impressive range of his narrative imagination. Set in the lower-class Cairo district of Shubra, Saint Theresa tells the story of two young women, Budour and Sawsan, childhood friend who come of age following the 1967 war. Budour marries a...
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...