The American University In Cairo Press: 265 books

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by Yusuf Idris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002

Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national...
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by M.M. Tawfik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

"When the first armchair smashed into the asphalt, Sergeant Ashmouni was at his usual spot on the median of the Nile Corniche, trapped by the road's twin currents turbulently flowing forth to Maadi and back to Old Cairo. He was wiping the sweat away from his eyes with his worn out sleeve and...
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Being Abbas el Abd

A Modern Arabic Novel

by Ahmed Alaidy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

"The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement." Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures" The Daily Star "What is madness?" asks the...
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by Anna Cachia, Pierre Cachia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000

This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating,...
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Memories In Translation

A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature

by Denys Johnson-Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006

Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name,...
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The Valley of the Kings

A Site Management Handbook

by Kent R. Weeks, Nigel J. Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

During the New Kingdom (c. 1570-1070 BCE), the Valley of the Kings was the burial place of Egypt's pharaohs, including such powerful and famous rulers as Amenhotep III, Rameses II, and Tutankhamen. They were buried here in large and beautifully decorated tombs that have become among the country's...
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Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian

Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo

by Reem A. Meshal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century,...
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The Food Question in the Middle East

Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 4

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. This interest has emerged from the global food crisis and its impact on the environment and the political economy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists,...
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Ten Again and Other Stories

and other stories

by William M. Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some...
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Candygirl

An Egyptian Novel

by M.M. Tawfik
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Trying to evade intelligence agencies out to assassinate him, the Cerebellum, an Egyptian scientist with a past association with the Iraqi nuclear program, rents a room on the roof of a brothel in a Cairo slum. His interaction with the other residents is limited; instead he spends most of his time...
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Mapping My Return

A Palestinian Memoir

by Salman Abu Sitta
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from...
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The Days

His Autiobiography in Three Parts

by Taha Hussein
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001

For the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a...
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Sinai

Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare

by Mohannad Sabry
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...
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