The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books
by Humphrey Davies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and bridges, only for those names often to be replaced, and then replaced again, and even again, as the city and the country imagine and reimagine their past....
International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods in the last two centuries. It looks at both the migration of waves of Italians and Greeks to Egypt from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and...
Held in Trust
Waqf in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Waqfs (pious endowments) long held a crucial place in the political, economic, and social life of the Islamic world. Waqfs were major sources of education, health care, and employment; they shaped the city and contributed to the upkeep of religious edifices. They constituted a major resource, and...
Temple Bar
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords,...
Beyond The Victim
The Politics and Ethics of Empowering Cairo's Street Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated....
American Travelers on the Nile
Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt....
Translating Egypt's Revolution
The Language of Tahrir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by American University in Cairo students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented...
Visionaries of Silence
The Reformist Sufi Order of the Demirdashiya al-Khalwatiya in Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform. Practicing a visionary form of piety, the Demirdashiya once...
Nubian Encounters
The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 19611964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their...
Sustainability and Innovation
The Next Global Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
One of the most urgent problems facing the world today is environmental sustainability. Current practices of pollution control, waste treatment, and environmental protection are not only hugely expensive and a burden on development but also unsustainable in the long run for their steady depletion...
by Mohamed Berrada
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the...
Life is More Beautiful than Paradise
A Jihadists Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in...
American Universities Abroad
The Leadership of Independent Transnational Higher Education Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. From the first, the American University of Beirut, established in 1866, to the liberal arts institutions being established in Saudi Arabia, Ghana, and elsewhere in the twenty-first century, there is a clear sense...
by Idris Ali
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
"This is your last day. Be strong. Don't hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return." Idris Alis confessional novel opens with these words, spoken on an unbearably hot August afternoon in downtown Cairo, where the Nubian narrator has just decided, once and for all, to end his life. Delirious...