The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various...
Studies in Coptic Culture
Transmission and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived...
Amarna Sunset
Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved...
Amarna Sunrise
Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt's political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the most stupendous temples...
El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa
International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial...
From Pharoah's Lips
Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day...
Jerusalem without God
Portrait of a Cruel City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound existence. Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi,...
Arab Spring in Egypt
Revolution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation...
Egypt's Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull...
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs
An Omani Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by...
by Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder,...
Traveling through Sinai
From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Sinai has long attracted travelers to its ancient caravan routes and haunting landscapes, and visitors have frequently left written accounts of their experiences. In this wide-ranging anthology, Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel- Hakim have collected dozens of accounts and observations from travelers...
Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers
Egypt's Changing Northwest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions has for centuries been sustained. In the late twentieth century, however, forces such as modernization, globalization, and the politics and...
by Amina Zaydan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Suzie Mohamad Galal, born in the Egyptian city of Suez during the War of Attrition in the late 1960s, is a woman of inner conflicts, at once a fighter and a lover, who traverses the boundaries of ethnicity and religion. Her whole life is intricately tied to the wars and political events taking place...