The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books
Islamic Monuments in Cairo
The Practical Guide; New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first...
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...
The Literary Life of Cairo
One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life. Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city....
Cairo's Street Stories
Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the...
Cairo Contested
Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but...
Understanding Cairo
The Logic of a City Out of Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies...
Creating Medieval Cairo
Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing...
by Mekkawi Said
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Cairo, Mother of the World, embraces millions-but some of her children make their home in the streets, junked up and living in the shadows of wealth and among the monuments that the tourists flock to see. Mustafa, a former student radical who never believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story,...
Living with Heritage in Cairo
Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable....
Cairo Cosmopolitan
Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing...
Global Dreams
Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's...
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...
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...
Babylon of Egypt
The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the churches and monuments of this area of Cairo known by the Romans as Babylon. Examination of the material and structural...