The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books

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Papa Sartre

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Ali Bader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by his physical resemblance to the...
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Sufism

The Essentials

by Mark J. Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

For more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims. As the chief mystical tradition of Islam, it has helped to shape the history of Islamic societies. Although it is the Sufi face of Islam that has often appealed to Westerners, Sufis and Sufism remain...
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by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005

During the 1956 Suez War or the Tripartite Aggression, as it is known in Egyp life in Alexandria goes on. The railroad workers and their families live in the low-income housing of el- Masakin, along the Mahmudiya Canal, but some of them take us on forays into the other, cosmopolitan Alexandria, whose...
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The Lanterns of the King of Galilee

A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine

by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge...
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Transforming Education In Egypt

Western Influence and Domestic Policy Reform

by Fatma H. Sayed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

Basic education-considered essential for building democratic societies and competitive economies-has headed the agendas of development agencies in recent years. During the same period, Egypt topped the lists of recipients of development assistance and proclaimed education to be its national project....
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Mapping Arab Women's Movements

A Century of Transformations from Within

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women's organizations and informal women's groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab...
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by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of...
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by El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

This collection of case-studies showcases the experiences of ten intriguing entrepreneurial ventures from emerging markets in the Arab world (Egypt, the UAE, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia). Readers will receive an in-depth insight on a variety of localized strategic, managerial, marketing, and innovative...
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Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?

From the Revolution to the Age of Globalization

by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004

At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the habitable and cultivable land of the country is strictly...
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Dates on My Fingers

An Iraqi Novel

by Muhsin al-Ramli
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade....
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Wedding Night

An Egyptian Novel

by Yusuf Abu Rayya
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006

In a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda the deaf and mute butcher's apprentice. Revealing the town's private stories through public sign language, Houda articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparent quietude of rural society. But his own unrestrained desire threatens to...
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Life on Hold

A Saudi Arabian Novel

by Fahd al-Atiq
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Riyadh is a city of masks, a city "like a pressure cooker that's about to explode," a city that sleeps on a pile of words that no one dares utter. Saudi society has split into two camps, one adopting the slogan that God is strict in punishment, the other that God is merciful and forgiving....
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The Long Way Back

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Fuad al-Takarli
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the characters, their private conflicts and passions are set against the wider drama of events leading up to...
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by Ibrahim al-Koni
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna....
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