The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books
by Mohamed El-Bisatie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Forging documents in an Egyptian government office, a bureaucrat 'authorizes' a police department for a nonexistent city in Upper Egypt in order to siphon off its monthly payroll. But beyond simply embezzling funds, he sets about imagining in detail the fictional city he has created the wealthy new...
Graying of The Raven
Cultural and Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
From East to West The raven has turned gray O Reader of the unknown Help us in our ordeal! With a fine touch, Aida Bamia has explored the work of Muhammad bin al-Tayyib 'Alili (c.1894 c.1954), a hitherto virtually unknown oral poet of Algeria, bringing to her analysis new understanding of folk poetry...
Growing Old in Egypt
The Supply and Demand of Care for Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A new study of Egypt's resources for elder care, and an exploration of the cultural and social attitudes that impact this ever-increasing need in modern society The Egyptian society is aging. Families have to find solutions for care-dependent older persons, while at the same time, social changes threaten...
Crowds and Sultans
Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects of recurrent plagues to changes in international trade routes. Both these challenges and the policies and behaviors...
by Latifa Al-Zayyat
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures...
Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
Minya and Asyut
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in...
Dividing the Nile
Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the emergence of Sudanese nationalism. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests,...
The Collar and the Bracelet
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of...
by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with fancy cars, expensive clothes,...
Mrs. Tsenhor
A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums...
The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on...
The Dream
A Diary of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila,...
by Dalia M. Gouda
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user...