Cairo: 286 books

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists,...
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Ten Again and Other Stories

and other stories

by William M. Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some...
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Candygirl

An Egyptian Novel

by M.M. Tawfik
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Trying to evade intelligence agencies out to assassinate him, the Cerebellum, an Egyptian scientist with a past association with the Iraqi nuclear program, rents a room on the roof of a brothel in a Cairo slum. His interaction with the other residents is limited; instead he spends most of his time...
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In the House of Muhammad Ali

A Family Album, 1805-1952

by Hassan Hassan
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...
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The Bazaar in the Islamic City

Design, Culture, and History

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social...
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Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground

Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1

by Ellen R. Weis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and social upheaval and change. It reveals how rappers approached and...
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The Zafarani Files

An Egyptian Novel

by Gamal al-Ghitani
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the café owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with the troll of a husband all are subjects...
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by Ibrahim Aslan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

Set in the author's own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious...
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Mapping My Return

A Palestinian Memoir

by Salman Abu Sitta
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from...
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by Naguib Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate. On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their...
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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays,...
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by Naguib Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

A classic Mahfouz story exploring themes of marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious life. Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recently translated Mahfouz novel, is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness...
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Homecoming

Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as...
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Private Pleasures

An Egyptian Novel

by Hamdy el-Gazzar
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable...
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