The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books
Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century
The Primacy of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP's...
Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt
Negotiating Muslim Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations among different factions of society. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were introduced in Egyptian personal status laws:...
by Sherif Baha el Din
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Reptiles and amphibians are among Egypt's most successful wildlife, found in almost every habitat in the country, from homes to fields and the desert itself. For the first time, A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt provides concise, reliable, and up-to-date information on all of Egypt's...
Copts at the Crossroads
The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront. This book poses such questions as why there has been a mass exodus of Copts from Egypt, and how this relates...
Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt
A Study of Spirit Possession
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who came to seek help. In an intense study,...
by Lise Manniche
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak. Fragments of more than thirty statues are now known, showing the paradoxical features combining male and...
by Richard Hoath
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt is the first comprehensive field guide to every mammal species recorded in contemporary Egypt, from gazelle to gerbil, from hyena to hyrax. Each mammal species is described in detail, with reference to identification features, status, habitat, and habits, and...
Siwa
Jewelry, Costume, and Life in an Egyptian Oasis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested...
The Egyptian Economy
Current Challenges and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The Egyptian economy has undergone several reforms since the early 1990s. However, it was not until recently that the reform process picked up speed and intensity. Key initiatives included shifting to a flexible exchange rate regime, liberalizing trade, revising and reducing the tariff structure,...
The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt
Issues and Policymaking since 1952
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
What are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy? What are the factors that have facilitated or inhibited its performance? This crucial and timely work answers these questions and more by examining the most important economic decisions to have impacted the Egyptian economy since...
Anubis
A Desert Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in,...
Pedagogy of Empowerment
Community Schools as a Social Movement in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This new study weaves anthropological detail with hard facts and analysis as it takes the reader to visit the community schools of Upper Egypt. It offers a historical understanding of the initiative whilst carefully embedding it in the political and economic global context of the late twentieth century....
The Modern Neighbors of Tutankhamun
History, Life, and Work in the Villages of the Theban West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Until their recent demolition, the colorful mud-brick hamlets of al-Qurna village, situated among the Noble Tombs of the Theban Necropolis on the Luxor West Bank, were home to a vibrant community. Inhabiting a place of intensive Egyptological research for over two centuries, it was inevitable that...
Tales from Dayrut
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of...