The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books

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Committed to Disillusion

Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s

by David DiMeo
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment,...
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by Al-Tahawy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

Blue Aubergine tells the story of a young Egyptian woman, born in 1967, growing up in the wake of Egypt's defeat of that year, and maturing into womanhood against the social and political upheavals Egypt experienced during the final decades of the twentieth century. Physically and emotionally scarred...
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House of the Wolf

An Egyptian Novel

by Ezzat El Kamhawi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists....
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The Lamp of Umm Hashim

And Other Stories

by Yahya Hakki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and—of course—Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature,...
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by Henry Habib Ayrout
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005

Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in...
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by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five. This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordered to...
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Nocturnal Poetics

The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context

by Ferial J. Ghazoul
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996

The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul's analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study...
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Occupied Lives

Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank

by Nina Gren
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

Intense media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not necessarily enhance one's knowledge or understanding of the Palestinians; on the contrary they are more often than not reduced to either victims or perpetrators. Similarly, while many academic studies devote considerable effort to...
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by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied. This book deals with the period from 1805 to 1952, during which Turkish cultural patterns, spread through reforms based on those of Istanbul,...
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The Sufferers

Stories and Polemics

by Taha Hussein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life, but he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. The stories in The Sufferers were first published in the periodical al-Katib...
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by Nicholas S. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001

This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several...
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Illusion Of Progress in the Arab World

A Critique of Western Misconstructions

by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with...
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by Nelly Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modern world history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America and...
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Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States

Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia

by Samson A. Bezabeh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

Although the Horn of Africa was historically one of the earliest destinations for Yemeni migrants, it has been overlooked by scholars, who have otherwise meticulously documented the Yemeni presence in the Indian Ocean region. Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States draws on rich ethnographic and historical...
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